John Stilley

Yes, I believe you correctly understand the current situation. The Database treats materials as static things. But people can inject whatever code they _want_ into the materials, of course. Including...

1. I think this needs a release note. It's a non-trivial re-write. 2. How much does the Axial Expansion API change? (For people writing code downstream, does this change the...

Put something on my calendar for this, @albeanth

> I think `pickle` was employed at one point to try and help mitigate this issue... Yeah, but that can only help with LOAD times. If people are running complicated...

This ticket was solved by a recent PR: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/pull/1737

@drewj-usnctech I agree with Tony about the tight coupling summary table. But... sure, better documentation. That's totally fair. Do you want to take a crack at that documentation? Or should...

Maaaaaybe. But ARMI is using the `pluggy` system, and `pluggy`s whole deal is it loads up all the hooks at import time. In the past, I've had a really hard...

@onufer If there is some downstream code calling this and just getting a `DeprecationWarning`, let me fix that down stream code so it doesn't and we can safely delete this....

@aaswenson Welcome to ARMI! It seems like a fair request. Off the top of my head, I don't see a problem. Though I would love to be able to write...

@Nebbychadnezzar I assume you're not going to take this one any more? heh