DMD workforce contribution

[Walter Bright]

On 11/7/2011 1:19 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> I'm not quite familiar with DMD's internals, so the best answer would
> be "whatever is more important to do".

I take it you want to work on DMD itself, then!

1. Making shared libraries under Linux work would be a big improvement.

2. Another would be to investigate the Dwarf symbolic debug outfit and make 
dmd's output work well in gdb.

3. Run the dmd test suite under Linux with gcc's coverage analyzer turned on. 
Add test cases to cover dmd source code that is not tested.

4. There are many static analyzers on the market. Try compiling dmd with one or 
more of them, and propose fixes.

5. Go through the Bugzilla unresolved issues, pick what interests you, and 
propose patches to fix them.

6. Investigate popular benchmarks (such as the "shootout"). Compare the native 
code generated by dmd with that of C or C++, and identify inefficient code 
sequences.

7. Install NetBSD or OpenBSD, and port dmd to them.