Symmetry Autumn of Code

[Zheng Luo (Vic)]

On Sunday, 22 July 2018 at 17:12:31 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> I'm interested in the "Graphics library for resource 
>> constrained embedded systems" project and have some spare time 
>> this autumn, but I have some questions:
>> - Does this project aim at creating a hardware-agnostic 
>> rasterizer supporting a few primitives like https://skia.org/ 
>> or implementing a full GUI library like emWin rendering widget 
>> and handling I/O events such as mouse? The latter one sounds a 
>> little bit challenging to finish in four months
>> - In the past year I primarily wrote C++ and don't have much 
>> experiences with production-level D programming, can I get 
>> involved into this program?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> IMHO no need to reinvent the wheel for that.
>
> You can probably do both in four months, if you just "port" 
> (separately) and bind the code of the two following libraries :
> 1/ swGL (https://github.com/h0MER247/swGL)
> 2/ Nuklear (https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear)
>
> They have a very open design, and are already quite well 
> optimized for speed and memory consumption.
>
> Moreover this would allow the D port of the Nuklear library to 
> also use a hardware accelerated renderer on desktop platforms.
>
> Nice isn't it ?
>
> And I'd be glad to mentor you on this :)

Thanks! Porting seems to be easier than creating a library from 
scratch. The Nuklear library looks like a great candidate for 
porting since it only has a few external dependencies. swGL, 
however, depends on a large set of C++ standard library and 
threading model, which makes it difficult to create a 
dependency-free port.

Moreover, The term "dependency-free" in the project description 
often confuses me, because as a hardware-agnostic library the 
project does have to depend on external implementations like 
"sin"/"memset" or even "thread_start", and I'm not sure which 
kind of dependency is proper for this project: Should we assume a 
multi-threading model? Should this library rely on 
"malloc"/"free"? Correct me if my understanding is wrong since I 
had few experience on embedded programming.