Stream: contributing

Topic: Track remaining builtins for the Zig compiler


view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 10 2026 at 04:04):

See https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/issues/9596

It's come up a few times, so I thought I'd ask our LLM friends to sift through all the details I could find and put together a consolidated list of missing builtins for us to coordinate around.

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 10 2026 at 04:06):

I've locked and pinned the issue so we can limit discussion to Zulip ideas threads or more specific GH Issues.

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 10 2026 at 04:07):

It would be helpful if you see anything that doesn't look right to let me know... I've tried to compile a lot of detail and almost certainly missed some things

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 10 2026 at 13:11):

I've made a start on two of these
(1) https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/pull/9599 -- implement Dict with an insertion-ordered hash map
(2) https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/pull/9600 -- all of the remaining Numeric builtins

view this post on Zulip David Mell (Jun 10 2026 at 17:06):

Shouldn't all the builtins that were suffixed with _checked in the old compiler use _try instead, to be consistent with the change in naming of the to_ conversion functions?

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Jun 10 2026 at 17:47):

that makes sense to me


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