[2023-05-22] Library and Engine Team Update

[jdunkerley]

• James: Issues under Review the Widget set up for Public APIs and Improve Stuff (May) #6410
  • Table viz bug fixes.
  • Drop down configuration for table functions.
  • Some ability to treat Vector, Range and Date_Range as Columns and convert more easily.
• James: Adding execution context control to Table.write.
• Radek: Added cast support to the in-memory Table. Implement cast for Table and Column #6711
• Radek: Added simple parse support to the database Table. Implement simple variants of parse for the Database backend #6731
• Radek: Started working on support for cast on Mixed value types.
• Greg: Added round and truncate support to numbers. Add drop down for Locale like Encoding #6654
• Greg: Adding drop down support for Locales. Add drop down for Locale like Encoding #6654
• Jaroslav: Adjusted loading message to be more user friendly. Display Initializing project... message when initializing project #6661
• Jaroslav: Bug fix for Meta.meta when accessing methods of Integer. Meta.meta Integer . methods #6740
• Jaroslav: Improvements to sbt runEngineDistribution to make debugging easier. sbt runEngineDistribution --debug to ease debuggging #6745
• Jaroslav: Fix for warnings not showing on simple Vectors. Using WarningsLibrary to query for warnings #6751
• Jaroslav: Working to add runtime type checking. Runtime check of ascribed types #6790
• Hubert: Bug fix for flood of suggestionsDatabaseUpdate messages. Only send suggestions updates when type changes #6755
• Hubert: Reproducing various reported IDE <->LS issues and providing scenarios of failures.
• Pavel: Fix for importing a nonexistent module/type using from syntax does not yield any errors. Add a compiler pass to analyze non-existing imported symbols #6726
• Pavel: Upgrade to GraalVM based on JDK17. Upgrade to GraalVM based on JDK17 #6274
• Dmitry: SuggestionBuilder sends ascribedType of constructor parameters. SuggestionBuilder needs to send ascribedType of constructor parameters #6655
• Dmitry: Avoid adding unnecessary imports. Set suggestion reexports when serializing the library #6778
• Dmitry: Add created date to project manager "list projects" endpoint. Add project creation time to project metadata #6780