[2023-04-03] Library and Engine Team Update

[jdunkerley]

• James: Adjusted column resizing within the table to be data content driven. Compute column widths based on content of column. #6157
• James: Adjusted table header function to not adjust the header's case. Small issues from working with Ned #6160
• James: Altered Process.run to return standard-out, standard-error, and exit code. Small issues from working with Ned #6160
• James: No warning attached if joining data and just adding the prefix. Small issues from working with Ned #6160
• James: Design discussion for Map literals. Literal format for the Map type #6167
• James: Sorting out type definitions and reviewing public/private functions.
• Radek: Completed adding the initial Value_Type implementation to tables. Proper implementation of Value Types in Table #6073
• Radek: Added proper datetime and time support to Postgres. Add Date/Time support to Postgres backend and implement basic year/month/date operations. #6115
• Radek: Added year, month and day to Column type. Add Date/Time support to Postgres backend and implement basic year/month/date operations. #6115
• Radek: Started on Table.union support within a database, created a prototype.
• Greg: Completed updating Text.replace and Text.replace_all. Implement Regular Expression replace and update Text.replace to the new API #5959
• Greg: Updated Text.split to new API. Implement Regular Expression split and update Text.split to the new API #6116
• Greg: Adding Text.tokenize for regular expression-based splitting. #5123 Text.tokenize #6150
• Greg: Adjust Text.split to allow a collection of delimiters. Update Text.split to take a Vector Text parameter #6156
• Jaroslav: Fix for parser NPE on empty assignment. Turn missing body in a binding into a syntax error #6107
• Jaroslav: Always print stacktrace to provide some guidance of what is going on. Always print stacktrace to provide some guidance of what is going on #6128
• Jaroslav: Restoring disabled parser tests. Adjusting tests to new parser #6143
• Jaroslav: Delay creation enso_project. Delay creation of project root EnsoFile until it is really needed #6149
• Jaroslav: Lazy atoms PoC. Suspended atom fields are evaluated only once #6151
• Jaroslav: Text.to_display_text is a shortened version of self. Text.to_display_text is (shortened) identity #6174
• Jaroslav: Twice as fast Any.==. Always try to resolve conversion for Any type #6184
• Hubert: Regenerate the Index when building standard libraries. Generate index when invoking buildStdLib tasks #6000
• Hubert: More elaborate error messages when text edit fails. More elaborate error message for invalid text edit #6108
• Hubert: Missing imports sometimes result in very confusing error traces. Report errors when generating indexes #6123
• Hubert: Working on the Runtime.Context and methods to handle it. Replace IOContexts with execution env and contexts #6171
• Pavel M: Fixing the issue where Boolean.False != False. Treat Boolean.False as false primitive #6090
• Pavel M: Continued work on sort handling Incomparable types by default. sort handles incomparable values #5998
• Dmitry: Reviewed that editing a node no longer produces masses of data flow errors. DataflowErrors everywhere once one starts editing a node #5072
• Dmitry: When renaming the project clean old modules instead of updating. When renaming the project clean old modules instead of updating #6148
• Dmitry: Batching insert suggestions into the database.
• Pawel G: Working to replace node text label with widget hierarchy. replace node text label with widget hierarchy #5921

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Batch insert suggestions improved suggestions loading by ~3 times (1582 ms before vs 458 ms after on screenshots below)