On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:10 PM, jasonw <u...@webmails.org> wrote: > 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?
Actually, it's Apache Thrift. Facebook uses it heavily and did the initial development, but it's now an Apache project. > > 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. Politically neutral, but almost exclusive to Linux. I won't deny that it would be useful, but D-Bus is useful for Linux desktop applications and little else.
