On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 17:34:46 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
2. Rather than wait to the last minute to start gathering possible project ideas I thought it might be good to start early. Since D-Conf is just recently ended I wanted to take advantage of the generated enthusiasm to find out if anyone had any big project ideas. I plan to make a similar posting in the fall, and then again shortly before the 2015 deadline for the procrastinators.
The GC would seem like a good project for GSoC. There's been a lot of talk about the GC, but not many actual GC commits in the official druntime. Integrating Luca's CDGC (http://forum.dlang.org/post/utbclcwhiidbewtuz...@forum.dlang.org), Sean's D2 version from years ago (http://forum.dlang.org/thread/exfrifcfczgjwkudq...@forum.dlang.org#post-mdonuqmhthwrwzrywtek:40forum.dlang.org), or Rainer's precise GC (http://forum.dlang.org/thread/qdloccrbwmrlxibmk...@forum.dlang.org#post-lja9ro:242bdi:241:40digitalmars.com), perhaps all of the above and then benchmarking them, might make for a good GSoC project. I imagine that at least one of them might volunteer as a mentor.
I don't know if Orvid would qualify for GSoC, but maybe he'd be a good candidate to do this, assuming he isn't too far down the road with his own GC by next summer. :)
