Roadmap v0.0.2

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As #46 is nearly done, we move to the next road map.

Engineering Tooling

• A unified IR serialization between Rust and Python
  • Porting all backend generation to Python.
    • Rust
    • Verilog
• Port Verilog to LLVM CIRCT
  • PyCDE programming
  • cocotb testbench
• Better location hint when casting errors
  • Redundant type check in Python
  • Argument number hint in decorator
  • Stabilize the generated IR code
    • Offset identifier in Python frontend
• Easier distribution
  • Docker is still too hard to use
  • Shall we have apptainer support for this

Better Tutorials

The existing language.md is little-bit out-dated

• Tentative Chaptered Tutorial in Both Chinese and English
  • Basics: Driver
  • A 2-Staged Pipelined Architecture
  • Explanation on Trace-based DSL
  • Cross-stage Reference: Binds
  • Cross-stage Reference: Downstream
  • Ported Writing
  • Understanding the Generated u-arch
    • Counter
    • FIFO

Agentic AI-friendly Refactor

• Add design docs for all modules #337
• Separate modules with smaller sizes (less than 400 per file)
• Separate runtime.rs in a file generated by Python in installation flow. [refactor] Make runtime standalone, and cached to imporve test performance. #338