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If you've been paying attention to the forums over the past few months, you'll have seen weekly updates from the three SAOC 2023 participants: Teodor Dutu (his third SAOC!), Emmanuel Nyarko, and Prajwal S N. Congratulations to each of them for making it all the way to the end. The work the put in was both well done and valuable for the D ecosystem.
Additional congratulations are in order for Prajwal S N, whom the judges selected for the final $1000 payment and the free trip to DConf '24. Well done!
Prajwal worked on modifying dfmt to use the DMD AST. Along the way, he made some improvements to dmd. He currently is working on identifying and fixing bugs and plans to get the new dfmt into a production-ready state.
As for the other two, they are still going forward with their projects.
Teo has worked on converting DRuntime hooks to templates during and between three SAOC editions. He gave a talk about it at DConf '22. He's got the finish line in sight now. Once he crosses it, he says he'll be on the lookout for further opportunities to research and improve the D compilers.
Emmanuel set out to hook D up to some C++ containers. He made a good bit of progress on that front and plans to continue. He tells me he will be looking for other opportunities to contribute to D beyond this project in the future.
Thanks to Razvan Nitu and Mathias Lang for taking on the mentor role this time. Razvan mentored Teo and Prajwal, Mathias mentored Emmanuel.
Thanks also to Átila Neves, Robert Schadek, and Jonathan M. Davis for serving as judges. That's a tougher job than one might think.
As for the future, I can announce already that SAOC 2024 is a go. I'll put out the call for applications in a few months. Thanks to Symmetry Investments for their ongoing support for the D ecosystem through SAOC and more.
