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• Memory management

  Tasks related to development of the language's memory management strategies and their implementation.

  No due date

  •11/12 issues closed
  91% complete1 open11 closed

• Tooling

  Additional tooling (nimsuggest, testament, documentation generator) as well as user-facing part of the compiler interface (switches, help).

  No due date

  •39/41 issues closed
  95% complete2 open39 closed

• MIR phase

  Implementation, integration, and improvements of the Mid-end Intermediate Representation (MIR for short). This is the IR used for the mid-end phase, which stands between the front-end (semantic analysis) and the backends.

  No due date

  •154/156 issues closed
  98% complete2 open154 closed

• Infrastructure and contribution handling

  Improvements and additions to the repository infrastructure (CI, releases) or contributors (contribution and moderation guidelines etc.)

  No due date

  •41/43 issues closed
  95% complete2 open41 closed

• Standard library additions or cleanup

  Additions or improvements to the standard library

  No due date

  •57/61 issues closed
  93% complete4 open57 closed

• JS backend refactoring

  No due date

  •20/20 issues closed
  100% complete0 open20 closed

• Parser phase refactoring

  No due date

  •9/9 issues closed
  100% complete0 open9 closed

• VM refactoring and improvements

  Tasks related to: * the built-in virtual machine * the compiler's built-in code generator for virtual machine code * the integration of the VM into the compiler (code generation, error reporting, invocation, etc.) * the functionality for producing standalone executables * the runner with which the standalone executables

  No due date

  •96/96 issues closed
  100% complete0 open96 closed

• Semantic analysis phase rework

  Both refactoring (non-behaviour altering) and changes (behaviour altering) that improve the implementation, that address: - simplification, removing, or replacing, half-baked features - consistent language rule application, including but not limited to rule ambiguities and conflicts - language and implementation bugs, such as "could never work features" - occasional new feature

  No due date

  •265/277 issues closed
  95% complete12 open265 closed

• C backend rework

  Clean-up, improvement, and refactors of the compiler's code generator (and associated functionality) producing code in the `C` language.

  No due date

  •74/75 issues closed
  98% complete1 open74 closed

• Test suite reorganization and cleanup

  General rework of the existing test suite: clarifying existing tests, removing duplicated checks, arranging files into more logical structure. Providing documentation to existing tests. Adding more elements to the language specification.

  No due date

  •51/57 issues closed
  89% complete6 open51 closed

• Diagnostics and error messages

  No due date

  •37/41 issues closed
  90% complete4 open37 closed