<@U011B6K6345> just made the first contribution to...

# framework-elide

[Sam Gammon]

@Sebastian Schuberth just made the first contribution to Elide outside the core team. Huge moment! Thank you again! Lol

[Sebastian Schuberth]

🙂 Thanks. I was thinking about doing another one to upgrade to Kotlin 1.8 final. But I was unsure whether that would break anything...

[Sam Gammon]

i have that one queued and ready to go locally, i just need to update two of the compiler plugins 😅

[Sam Gammon]

i was going to use Jake Wharton's compose-based CLI tool renderer, but it requires 1.7.10, so i went down a rabbit hole trying to update it last night. no dice

[Sebastian Schuberth]

You mean https://github.com/JakeWharton/mosaic?

[Sam Gammon]

Yes, that's the one

[Sam Gammon]

It's just a bit out of date, partially because there's no Compose release for 1.8.0 yet

[Sam Gammon]

Then i looked at https://github.com/varabyte/kotter, which looks great, but I had issues making the system terminal work

[Sebastian Schuberth]

I'm using https://github.com/ajalt/clikt / https://github.com/ajalt/mordant fo r now and I'm quite happy.

[Sam Gammon]

Oh sweet. Perfect

[Sam Gammon]

mordant looks like exactly what we need, i'm already parsing the CLI flags easily with Picocli

[Sam Gammon]

speaking of, if you haven't tried the CLI yet, it's an interesting entrypoint. once this feat/js-runtime-v3 branch wraps up that will be a useful thing finally

[Sam Gammon]

kotlin support is next of course, so you can do live REPL with kotlin

[Sam Gammon]

the virtual filesystem plans in the chat, above, are what i'm working on now

[Sam Gammon]

the VFS is where the VM pulls JS imports, resources, Python packages, etc etc

[Sam Gammon]

that should take, idk, a day or two to wrap up with tests, and then the VM is essentially done, and i can turn on ESM and NPM support.

[Sam Gammon]

at that point, we basically have Node but Kotlinized, and without the Node intrinsics (a good thing tbh)

[Sam Gammon]

anyway just trying to brief you about where it is 🙂 you are welcome to contribute at the tip or elsewhere, or wait, or do whatever feels right

[Sebastian Schuberth]

I'll probably wait a bit more to see the project mature to give it a try, but come back eventually to contribute here and here, as time permits. But for today, I'm going to bed 🙂 CU

[Sam Gammon]

hey, no worries! glad to have you here, that works! 😄 have a great evening