GSoC 2013 ideas page

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 03/27/2013 04:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I just started http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2013_Ideas. I'll add some tomorrow; we
> should have quite a few before the application deadline (March 29) in order to
> strengthen our application.
> 
> Please chime in!

A few for people to comment on before anything gets added to the page:

   -- QtD and GtkD.  I'm not 100% up to date on the status of these (I write
      numerical simulations, not applications...) but these should surely be
      brought up to date with the latest versions of Qt and GTK+.  Having a
      well-working QtD seems to me important given the recent announcements
      by Ubuntu favouring Qt (I'm thinking, Qt + Ubuntu Touch + D compiling on
      ARM offers some nice opportunities...).

   -- I'd second the call for really good integration with Python and for
      ARM support.

   -- Making the frontend, runtime and Phobos fully backend-agnostic so that
      new versions can be merged into other compilers (GDC, LDC, ...) with a
      minimal amount of work.

   -- A complete set of containers (emphasis on Set:-) for std.containers, and
      also address the performance issues that have been identified with current
      implementations.

   -- Reimplement random number generators as well designed reference types.

   -- A std.bigfloat to go alongside std.bigint.

   -- Didn't someone say std.numeric needed to be rebuilt from the ground up?