👋 Hello folks, it's been a long time since the last update!I'm very excited to announce that (most of) the Strawberry GraphQL core dev team is gathering in London on February 18th for a sprint. We will also be at Rust Nation, so if you'll be there, feel free to come and chat to us!

We've always wanted to organise a sprint, so we took the opportunity to do it in London after Rust Nation, since some of us were going to be in London for the conference 😊

Register for the sprints!

The sprints will be a great opportunity for us to discuss major updates and finally make a proper plan for version 1.0 (it's about time)!We're also very excited to hear from you. What do you want to see in Strawberry 1.0? Or is there any specific issue you want us to prioritise? Send me an email or join our Discord and let us know!

Also, we'd love to run this sprint remotely. We do have some budget to send stickers and pay for food, so if you're interested in participating with us on February 18th (UK time), let us know and we'll sort something out!

We have also been working on prototyping a potential (and partial) Rust integration, Erik has made a repo that's available here, feel free to check it out!

We want to see if we can replace parts of Strawberry using native bindings so we can improve performance (parsing and validation is quite slow right now).This is also part of the reason we're taking this opportunity and doing the sprints right after Rust Nation!

I've also been working on finding a designer for the new website! I'd love to release Strawberry 1.0 alongside the redesigned website, but we'll see. Finding a designer has been difficult but I think I'll have more updates to share about this soon.We'll also start a blog! This has been requested by a few people and it's a great idea to share updates about Strawberry (like this newsletter) and to also share how people are using Strawberry in production. If you have any stories you'd like to share, let me know!

For anything, feel free to join our Discord here!