Any ETA on MPP arrow release?

# arrow

[Big Chungus]

Any ETA on MPP arrow release?

[raulraja]

We are working on it and we have now what we need to remove the JVM deps. Most likely it will be mpp in the next first stable release of it all goes well at the end of this year or when the IR backend becomes stable.

[Big Chungus]

Thanks, looking forward to it!

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

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[Alex]

Guys, you are amazing! Great, great work!! Heads off to you guys, seriously, arrow is amazing!

Does this mean that 1.0.0-snapshot is MPP already?

[raulraja]

Not yet. @danieeh is working on bindings and next we are removing kapt but it's in progress

[Alex]

Is there any ETA or release plan for this?

[raulraja]

@paco is preparing the issues and they will be published for anyone that would like to contribute. We estimated around one quarter of one person's work so depending on help and availability sometime in 2021 Q1

[raulraja]

The biggest feature remaining is removing kapt and for that we need a strategy for optics in meta

[Big Chungus]

Cant you just replace it with https://github.com/Foso/MpApt

[raulraja]

Not really because we have a ton of custom code depending on an old metadata lib that is no longer maintained and we already have the replacement built with arrow meta that does the same as kapt for optics, the only remaining processor. @paco is finishing up the optics lib preparation and once that is done then kapt is out of core too. @simon.vergauwen already sent a PR for the validated data type where all that before was codegen is now member or extensions not depending on the typeclasses any more.

[raulraja]

Just an update and sorry I missed the last comment, we are almost there