[2023-03-13] Library and Engine Team Update

[jdunkerley]

• James: Completed improvements on Date and Time support from Werner demo. Fixes from the Demo on 2nd March #5823
• James: Completed CITI training and gained access to MIMIC IV dataset.
• James: Blog post on Preppin Data weeks 1-3.
• James: Revised design document on Write Data flow control. https://github.com/enso-org/design/pull/53
• James: Experiment and investigation into using agGrid for Data Grid.
• Radek: Ensure naming of columns from column operations is consistent. Review generated Column names #5850
• Radek: Review expression generated column names. Review generated Column names #5850
• Radek: Introduced a common common-polyglot-core-utils project and removed some duplicated logic Add a common-polyglot-core-utils project #5855
• Radek: Fixed Cross Tab column naming edge cases and added a fill_empty helper aligned with fill_nothing (renamed from fill_missing) Fix cross_tab column naming edge cases, add fill_empty #5863
• Radek: Design work and implementation of Value Types for Column.
• Greg: Completed initial Regex.compile and updated match, find and find_all to use. Regex.Compile using Truffle Regex, update find, match and match_all #5785
• Greg: Finished/updated additional group accessor methods.
• Greg: Working on the regular expression support for replace.
• Jaroslav: Report AbstractTruffleExpression as a panic. Report AbstractTruffleException as a Panic #5794
• Jaroslav: Coerce values obtained from polyglot calls. Coerce values obtained from polyglot calls #5832
• Jaroslav: Adjusted the Meta.is_a behavior to work for types. Meta.is_a consistent with case-type-of check #5853
• Jaroslav: Meta.get_constructor_fields works for Type. Meta.get_constructor_fields works for Type #5869
• Jaroslav: Address logging issue where {0} was appearing. Use SimpleFormatter.formatMessage to replace {0} with actual parameters #5870
• Jaroslav: Remeasuring start up performance (now 8s down from 11s).
• Hubert: Downgrade from SHA-3 to SHA-1 to improve start up. Downgrade hashing to SHA-1 and other optimizations #5791
• Hubert: Investigated reconnecting with the engine, follow up tickets added.
• Hubert: Fixing the GraalVM updater attempts to install component multiple times. Don't log installed engines and runtimes in prod #5900
• Hubert: Investigating issues with visualisations Visualisation evaluation failed: Type error: expected a function, but got 100000 (Integer) resulting in Error #5877 and Spurious visualization request timeouts caused by cancelling all jobs after file edits #5889
• Pavel M: Add support for partial ordering to Comparators. Comparators support partial ordering #5778
• Pavel M: Merge ordered and unordered comparators. Merge ordered and unordered comparators #5845
• Pavel M: Comparing Enso benchmarks results with Enso. (Demo)
• Dmitry: Pre-compute Suggestion DB during build time. Pre compute suggestion db during build time #5698
• Dmitry: Fixing issue with interruptedException "escaping" LS without being printed. Log exceptions with stack traces #5871
• Dmitry: Working on delaying background jobs execution.
• Pawel G: Adding better support of Named arguments. Named arguments support in IDE #5774
• Pawel G: Adjust dropdown indicator to be a triangle. triangle indicator for dropdowns #5859
• Pawel G: Support for custom widget entry labels. support custom widget entry labels #5705