Roadmap 2020-2021

[nikomatsakis]

Meeting proposal info

• Title: Roadmap 2020-2021
• Type: non-technical

Summary

The idea is to talk about the overall roadmap for the compiler team over the next year and a half or so. Before the meeting, I will be iterating on a hackmd that tries to lay out the kinds of use cases and goals we want to work towards, and names a few big initiatives.

This isn't meant to be an "exhaustive list" of all we will do -- in fact, it should leave room for unexpected twists. But it should highlight a few major initiatives.

About this issue

This issue corresponds to a meeting proposal for the compiler team
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Here is a hackmd for this meeting: https://hackmd.io/3ES5_GhwTzOVmPS8AuaVvw

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[nikomatsakis]

Schedule for May 29

[pnkfelix]

To add to agenda at start:

• "error: expected identifier when building time-macros-impl v0.1.1" #72545
  • It is also a regression.
  • Detected on day one.
  • Affects at least time, wasm-bindgen and syn.
  • It was also reported as Regression: spurious "error: expected ," in serde::Serialize on macro_rules-variable path enum discriminant rust#72608

[nikomatsakis]

Assigning self to save notes/minutes