Google Summer of Code 2011 application

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-03-09 13:09, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 09.03.2011 09:39, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
>> On 2011-03-09 00:14, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>> Am 08.03.2011 20:37, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>>> I just submitted an application for GSoC 2011 on behalf of Digital
>>>> Mars.
>>>> Please review and contribute to the project ideas page:
>>>>
>>>> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> Two (ok, maybe three) IDE related ideas:
>>>
>>> 1. integration of the profiler (use profilers output to directly jump to
>>> related sections in the code, mark time-intensive sections, stuff like
>>> that)
>>>
>>> 2. possibility to show assembly code from (de-)compiled executable
>>> inline in source so it's easier for developers who don't know much
>>> assembly language to understand how much machine code is generated by
>>> their code, possibly creating bottlenecks from harmless-looking
>>> statements etc.
>>>
>>> 3. Any work on IDEs should be for cross-platform IDEs, maybe eclipse DDT
>>> or codeblocks. Or maybe somebody could port D-IDE (d-ide.sf.net), which
>>> is pretty good as far as I know, to mono so it can be used on other
>>> platforms than windows?
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to use a platform independent GUI library.
>
> When starting from scratch - certainly.
> But if D-IDE should be improved/ported - which currently uses .Net -
> mono is probably the best choice (better than rewriting it completely).
> Or do you think it should be ported to Qyoto (Qt for C#) or GTK# or
> something like that for a more native look and feel?

Sorry, I assumed it was written in D, don't why I got that from.

> And if some other IDE should be improved (probably it should be
> discussed what specific IDE this should be anyway) then *please* improve
> a cross-platform IDE like eclipse DDT or codeblocks (and not, e.g.
> Visual D or Posedion, because those are only available on Windows anyway).
>
> Something else to consider: For improvements-of-existing-IDEs the
> current IDE developers should probably be involved as mentors.
>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg