GSOC - Holiday Edition

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 31/12/2014 03:25, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>
> 7) Bruno Medeiros - you suggested a DDT project. I've added it. Can you
> provide me with a few more details, and a bio.   Also, under what
> license is DDT released, I couldn't access any code on your GitHub page
> to check this.

Bio:
Lead developer of DDT - the Eclipse D IDE - on and off from as far back 
as 2008. Has an interest in toolchain development for upcoming languages 
such as D, particularly the development of IDEs and IDE semantic 
functionality. Professionally, works mainly with core Java and Eclipse 
RCP technologies - currently on R&D projects.


DDT is released under the Eclipse Public License. (one tiny component is 
Apache License)  And yup, several source files still need to be cleaned 
up to include the license info, I've been a bit lax with that in the past.


DDT core engine ideas (only core Java knowledge needed):
* Make the DDT semantic engine available as a command-line daemon tool 
(similar to DCD).
* Add support for source formatting (with formatting options).
* Add support for semantic search in the semantic engine (search symbols 
by name and type (for example: "where in my code is the function 
std.stdio.writeln called?", or "which classes in my code subclass this 
given class?") .
* Improve semantic engine / code completion capabilities (for example, 
understand template instantiation, function overloads, etc.)


DDT Eclipse specific ideas:
* Improve/add UI support for DUB multiple build configurations + launch.
* Reduce usages of DLTK code, possibly refactoring or rewriting DLTK 
functionality into an IDE-neutral layer (LangEclipseIDE).
* Add support for continuous build mode (build and report errors on the 
fly).

Some of the items in both lists are a bit small for GSoC, so they might 
have to be combined with others.

The good news is that this year with DDT there is a lot more 
opportunities with core Java tasks only, which should make it easier for 
a newbie to join in and contribute. But realistically, it's a long shot 
that we'll get a candidate of quality for this proposal - Java interest 
doesn't rank high in the D community... ^_^'

-- 
Bruno Medeiros
https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros