2025h1 project goals March update

[lqd]

This is the March 2025h1 project goals update. It's partially generated to collect all the individual goal updates posted by the goal owners, and hand tweaked (some manual layout tweaking was required, as well as some of the content that jumped out).

I think the new blog setup has degraded link detection? I've had to manually mark some markdown links for them to be detected. I don't remember having to do this before, but could be wrong.

Some other missing links were just because the content comes from github, and that has its own set of linkifiers that we don't have on the blog: we'll have to take care of these in the automation collecting the project goals updates into these blog posts. I manually fixed these for the flagship goals though.

cc @nikomatsakis

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[senekor]

I made a bunch of changes to the blog setup recently, so if there's a regression I will try to fix it. Could you explain more what the problem was? Link detection? We still use the same markdown parser library, so I'm not sure what would've caused it.

[senekor]

Ah, I suppose it's about adding the <> around plain URLs in the "fix linkification" commits.

[lqd]

Auto-linkifying probably, so not related to markdown parsing: noticing a https://... piece of text and turning it into a link. Again, I could be wrong.

[senekor]

Sorry for not being clear, the markdown parsing library also outputs the html for us, looks like this:

let contents = comrak::markdown_to_html(contents, &options);

I don't think we do any additional / custom linkification.

It's possible that the comrak library was updated in the meantime and somehow changed its behavior in this regard. I'll have a look later.

[senekor]

I checked out an older commit (Nov. 2024), copy-pasted the content and the plain URLs still weren't linkfied. So I doubt this is a regression. Or it would've happened a long time ago.