September 15th marks the beginning of the first SAOC 2025 milestone. We received more applications this year than we've ever seen. Thanks to everyone who submitted. We wish we could have accepted them all.

We have funding for three participants. Our three judges, Jonathan M. Davis, Átila Neves, and Robert Schadek, sorted through all the applications and settled on three projects that are aimed at enhancing the D user experience.

Mohamed El Shorbagy is furthering work on the ongoing compiler project to separate semantic routines from AST nodes. This work is foundational to implementing DMD as a library. Razvan Nitu is his mentor.

Sourish Jana is adding structured hints to D's error messages (e.g., 'did you mean...') and exposing diagnostics in JSON for better IDE/LSP integration. This will benefit every D programmer. His mentor is Nicholas Wilson.

Emmanuel Nyarko, who worked on enhancing D's C++ interop in SAOC 2023, is back for another round. This time, he's focused on improving ImportC. His goal is to reduce the number of open ImportC-related issues. Dennis Korpel is his mentor.

I ask you to join me in wishing each participant a successful event. Keep an eye out for their weekly forum updates starting next week. I know they'll be thankful for any feedback you may have for them.

On Monday, 15 September 2025 at 23:18:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

This is fantastic news. Happy to see the momentum rolling, both on the dlang/symmetry side, and on the applicants side. Good choice of topics! Thank you all involved (dlang and, especially, the mentors), and good luck to the successful applicants!