[doyougnu]

Hi coauthor here!

Work has been steady the master project plan is tracked in this ticket: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/17957

Almost all the recent work has been performed by Dominik Peteler (@mmhat) during Google summer of code, which John supervised. We've primarily been focused on landing !8341[0] which makes huge strides in Core w.r.t. modularity (see https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21872), but are on hold until schedules agree and some vacations end.

So the modularity project is far from dead. In fact Sylvain and I are planning on returning to it after we upstream the new Javascript backend (slated for 9.6, see MR!9133[1], tracking ticket[2]) hopefully this week.

PS: That patch is actually a good example of a gnarly lung transplant for GHC's Core IR (and done by a new contributor!).

[0]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/8341

[1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/9133

[2]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21078

[tome]

Thanks! This work is truly fantastic.