Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > On 3/3/11 3:48 AM, Jens Mueller wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > Trass3r brought it up and I think it's a very good idea. D is lacking > > some man power. The mentoring deadline is 11th of March. There are > > important and interesting projects students may work on. > > > > I'm writing this post seeking answers to > > 1. What's the "official" D stand on this matter? > > 2. Are there already students who have time and would like to join? What > > are you interested in? > > > > The first question is currently the more important one. The organization > > administrator has to submit an application until the above deadline. > > The purpose of the second question is to get some feedback whether it > > would be worthwhile to submit an application. Because later on students > > need to propose/join a project. > > > > Jens > > > > PS > > The FAQs on http://code.google.com/soc/ is very helpful. > > Thanks for this idea. I plan to submit an organization application. As > of now I'm unclear whether Digital Mars would be the best organization > to apply, as opposed to an unincorporated "d-programming-language.org" > entity. I'll discuss this with Walter. All, please chime in if you have > related experience. > > We have a number of good projects to work on: > > * XML library > > * Networking library > > * IDE > > * Lexer/parser generator > > * Containers > > * Encryption/hashing > > * Thrift bindings
What is Thrift? I read it's a Facebook technology which would benefit your career, not D especially. Not trying to be political, but as we know Facebook and Google are competing enemies. Why do you think Google would support some Facebook project financially? Why not write D-Bus bindings? D-Bus is the de facto protocol on all modern open source operating systems. About as important as COM or CLR. COM is supported by D. Why not D-Bus? D-Bus is politically neutral technology.