Avoid unnecessary allocations or larger iterator structs
- Turn static `Vec`s into arrays when possible
- Use `std::iter::once`/`empty` where applicable
- Use `bool::then_some` in `detect column` `.chain`
- Drop in the bucket: de-vec-ing tests
Improvements overall to Nu. Also among the changes here, we can also be more confident towards incorporating `3041`. End to end tests for checking envs properly exported to externals is not added here (since it's in the other PR)
A few things added in this PR (probably forgetting some too)
* no writes happen to history during test runs.
* environment syncing end to end coverage added.
* clean up / refactorings few areas.
* testing API for finer control (can write tests passing more than one pipeline)
* can pass environment variables in tests that nu will inherit when running.
* No longer needed.
* no longer under a module. No need to use super.
* Playground infraestructure (tests, etc) additions.
A few things to note:
* Nu can be started with a custom configuration file (`nu --config-file /path/to/sample_config.toml`). Useful for mocking the configuration on test runs.
* When given a custom configuration file Nu will save any changes to the file supplied appropiately.
* The `$nu.config-path` variable either shows the default configuration file (or the custom one, if given)
* We can now run end to end tests with finer grained control (currently, since this is baseline work, standard out) This will allow to check things like exit status, assert the contents with a format, etc)
* Remove (for another PR)
