What happened to this project? There was very promising discussion going on, but the signal's gone quiet... is there a working feature?

On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 20:25:18 UTC, Manu wrote:
> What happened to this project? There was very promising discussion going on, but the signal's gone quiet... is there a working feature?

What I want to know is wtf happen to this: https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2671

On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 20:33:06 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> What I want to know is wtf happen to this: https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2671

Hello, PR author here.

This was done as part of my GSoC Project, for which you can see
a description here [1].

This PR specifically was replaced by this PR [2].

Now, the short answer of what happened to this project is that the goals
were bad. And for the fact that I know this, I thank Johan Engelen and
Manu Evans (other people people had pointed out their doubts,
and I appreciate that too, but Manu's and Johan's
input was pivotal). You can check their comments in [2] and [3].

There a lot of things to say about this project but I think this thread
is not the best place to have this discussion.
You can post in the project's thread [4] and be sure I will answer any questions.

[1] http://users.uoa.gr/~sdi1600105/google-summer-of-code.html
[2] https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2687
[3] https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2662
[4] https://forum.dlang.org/thread/izaufklyvmktnwsrmhci@forum.dlang.org

On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 20:25:18 UTC, Manu wrote:
> What happened to this project? There was very promising discussion going on, but the signal's gone quiet... is there a working feature?

The project is almost done. Edi needs to push his latest commits and rebase with latest master; he was delayed because there were some issues with building gdc with the generated headers, but he told me that he fixed them. His work can be found here [1] and the description for Gsoc, detailing what has been done here [2]. There are still limitations though, for example: templates cannot be translated yet.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9971
[2] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9971

On Thursday, 5 September 2019 at 08:21:34 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 20:25:18 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> What happened to this project? There was very promising discussion going on, but the signal's gone quiet... is there a working feature?
>
> [2] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9971

^ Typo

The GSoC report link is

https://gist.github.com/edi33416/d2f8afff217e64deae368e0e81f2adcf

On Thursday, 5 September 2019 at 08:21:34 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 20:25:18 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> What happened to this project? There was very promising discussion going on, but the signal's gone quiet... is there a working feature?
>
> The project is almost done. Edi needs to push his latest commits and rebase with latest master; he was delayed because there were some issues with building gdc with the generated headers, but he told me that he fixed them. His work can be found here [1] and the description for Gsoc, detailing what has been done here [2]. There are still limitations though, for example: templates cannot be translated yet.
>
> [1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9971
> [2] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9971

Second link is missing (only a copy of the first)

On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 20:25:18 UTC, Manu wrote:
> What happened to this project? There was very promising discussion going on, but the signal's gone quiet... is there a working feature?

I spent quite some time on getting the headers to work with gdc, as detailed in the project report [0].

This week I had an epiphany related to ctor/dtor declarations. If it's ok with everyone, lets keep this discussion in one thread and stick with the original GSoC forum post [1].

Cheers,
Edi

[0] - https://gist.github.com/edi33416/d2f8afff217e64deae368e0e81f2adcf
[1] - https://forum.dlang.org/post/tsvfgfzlnvnvsqvjqiqh@forum.dlang.org