Mono-D at GSoC - Mentor needed

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On Monday, 19 March 2012 at 21:18:02 UTC, alex wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> It may sounds a bit annoying because I already was asking 
> everywhere in the IRC channels but still had no success -
>
> Is there anyone who wants to be my GSoC mentor for the Mono-D 
> project?
>
> In the case you don't know what Mono-D is all about:
> It's about creating a D language binding for MonoDevelop. 
> (http://monodevelop.com/Screenshots )
>
> There are couple of things that are already implemented - like 
> a relatively nice but fast code completion, build support, 
> small refactoring operations like they can be used in every 
> modern IDE and few other things which will make application 
> development with D a lot easier - especially for D newbies.
> (Debugging is also available via gdb on Linux systems - so 
> yeah, why not? :))
>
> The main road map for this summer of code is available under
> https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/blob/master/MonoDevelop.DBinding/Remaining%20features.txt
> - Especially things like the evaluation of constant expressions 
> and CTFE made e.g. a pre-compile-time view of mixin expressions 
> possible! - This would be more than nice, I guess!
>
> So if you want to support D (and perhaps me, too ;)) - be a 
> mentor for GSoC to let D roll a bit more!
>
> Further project info @ http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com
> For contact, you can speak to me in the #d and #d.mono-d 
> channel on freenode - I'm called 'alex|D-Guy' there

Bump.

This is a great project, and IMO, key to the popularity of D 
among a wider audience. Best of luck, Alex. Sounds like you've 
got some great ideas planned.