Hi,

I am new to the Open-Source community, and the D programming language got me interested. I would really love to contribute to this language. I am a Computer Science Major in my third year, and I have already done a course in programming languages. I implemented a simple prolog interpreter in SML for the course and I've been hooked onto the idea ever since. If only someone could guide me towards a starting point for contributors to the community, it would be really awesome.

Thanks,
Aayush.

Am 19.08.2012 18:58, schrieb Aayush Goel:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to the Open-Source community, and the D programming language
> got me interested. I would really love to contribute to this language. I
> am a Computer Science Major in my third year, and I have already done a
> course in programming languages. I implemented a simple prolog
> interpreter in SML for the course and I've been hooked onto the idea
> ever since. If only someone could guide me towards a starting point for
> contributors to the community, it would be really awesome.
>
> Thanks,
> Aayush.

The awesome thing about D is, it is still work and progress and you can actively help improving phobos (std. library), dmd/gdc/ldc/sdc (compiler) or the druntime. Everything is hosted on https://github.com/

* https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos
* https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd
* https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime

Well the whole D-Programming Organization: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language

Just fork the repo you wanna improve, commit your changes and submit a pull request! That's it!

But you can also help the community by writing useful libraries which don't exist yet. Or by writing bindings to C libraries and submitting them to deimos, https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/

Possibilities are endless ... with the D programming language :)


Btw. whenever you have a problem, D has a really awesome community, you will always find a helping hand, either here (newsgroup d.D.learn) or e.g. on IRC, irc.freenode.net #D

- david

David:

> The awesome thing about D is,
> ...
> Possibilities are endless ... with the D programming language :)

Bundled with D we also give ponies for free, approved by Celestia.

Bye,
bearophile

On Sunday, 19 August 2012 at 19:45:24 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> David:
>
>> The awesome thing about D is,
>> ...
>> Possibilities are endless ... with the D programming language :)
>
> Bundled with D we also give ponies for free, approved by Celestia.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

And Pinkie Pie's cupcakes

Bronies! D:

*Turns on flamethrower*

Back you monsters! Back!

On 19 August 2012 18:24, David <d@dav1d.de> wrote:
> Am 19.08.2012 18:58, schrieb Aayush Goel:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to the Open-Source community, and the D programming language got me interested. I would really love to contribute to this language. I am a Computer Science Major in my third year, and I have already done a course in programming languages. I implemented a simple prolog interpreter in SML for the course and I've been hooked onto the idea ever since. If only someone could guide me towards a starting point for contributors to the community, it would be really awesome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aayush.
>
>
> The awesome thing about D is, it is still work and progress and you can actively help improving phobos (std. library), dmd/gdc/ldc/sdc (compiler) or the druntime. Everything is hosted on https://github.com/
>
> * https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos
> * https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd
> * https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime
>
> Well the whole D-Programming Organization: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language
>

Three missing links were to the GDC compiler (A GCC based compiler for
the D language frontend implementation written in mixed C++ and
C++-safe C):
 * https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC

The LDC compiler (A LLVM based compiler for the D language frontend
implementation written in C++):
 * https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc

The SDC compiler (A LLVM based compiler written in D, and now for
something completely different!):
 * https://github.com/bhelyer/SDC

The rest is as already said:

> Just fork the repo you wanna improve, commit your changes and submit a pull request! That's it!
>


Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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