Hi all,

I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six amazing GSoC students:

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6103365956665344

As I mentioned in earlier threads, we had a lot of great applications and, thus, we had a really hard time with the selection.
For the students who we unfortunately couldn't accept this time, please stay tuned in D.announce for a few more days, there's something very interesting for you that will be announced in a few days.

As I presume you already are curious what projects got selected, let's get right to it:

Language Server Protocol in D (Manish Khurana)
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This project aims to develop a new fully-functional language server for D programming language using dmd library.

Independency of D from the C Standard Library (Stefanos Baziotis)
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An effort to decouple D from the C standard library.


Persistent Data Structures for D (lesderid)
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Developing an idiomatic D library for persistent/immutable data structures


Dataframes for D (Prateek Nayak)
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This project aims at bringing native dataframes to D Programming Language. The main task would be to implement a dataframe which supports multi-indexing, column binary operations, grouping and data aggregation. Along with the dataframe will also come functionality to parse data from and write data to a CSV file without any hassle.


Header generation for C/C++ (Eduard Staniloiu)
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Automated C/C++ header generation from D files


Replace Runtime Hooks with Templates (Dan Printzell)
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D’s betterC mode is an important tool to be able to use D on bare-metal and embedded platforms. By disabling, for example the class support, the compiles does not need to as many runtime functions and types to be implemented for the code to compile and link. This makes the life of a bare-metal developer much easier.

But there is a catch! A lot of the language features runtime hooks, which in turn requires the TypeInfo class to be able to function. One way of solving both of these problems is by moving runtime hooks to use templates instead. This solves the betterC by removing the dependency of classes (the TypeInfo class), and it solves the safety issue because now the compiler will have all the information about the hook and it can verify it itself and not just trust that the runtime developer remembered to mark the hook correctly.

This proposal will work on translating all the array hooks from using the TypeInfo class to templates.

What's next?
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For now our GSoC students are in the "community bonding period", the actual coding period starts on May 27th.
This means they are strongly encouraged to get familiar with the D community, their project and the mentor. In particular this means brushing up their D skills, clarifying/improving their roadmap and removing/discussing any potential obstacles with their mentor / community.

I will publish more infos after DConf.

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six amazing GSoC students:
>
> [...]

This is really very good news for the D community. Good luck to all the students (and the supervisors)!

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six amazing GSoC students:

Correct me if I'm wrong - isn't this the largest number of students yet that D has had for a GSoC? Regardless, amazing news.

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six amazing GSoC students:
>
> [...]

Exciting times.
Working for a small data science firm, I'll be interested in seeing how Dataframes for D (Prateek Nayak) goes.

Congrats to all the students selected, and all the best.

Jordan

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:
>
> Independency of D from the C Standard Library (Stefanos Baziotis)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> An effort to decouple D from the C standard library.

Does this mean that the GC will be using std.experimental.allocator (as you cannot assume malloc anymore)?

>
>
> Header generation for C/C++ (Eduard Staniloiu)
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Automated C/C++ header generation from D files
>

Definitely has a ton of uses

>
> Replace Runtime Hooks with Templates (Dan Printzell)
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> This proposal will work on translating all the array hooks from using the TypeInfo class to templates.

So this is the reason why the compiler refused to compile some array operations for me in -betterC. I appreciate that it'll be fixed.

On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six amazing GSoC students:
>[snip]

Thanks to all those who helped make this happen. Good luck to the students.