GSOC Idea.

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/03/16 3:09 AM, Marco wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 March 2016 at 09:29:38 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> Am Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:14:24 +1300
>> schrieb Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined at gmail.com>:
>>
>> [...]
>
>> The arduino Due uses a Cortex M3, so arduino could mean ARM or AVR.
>> GDC can target AVR devices with minimal changes. The main problem
>> is that you really can't use druntime / typeinfo on such small devices
>> and that some features (e.g. simply using structs) require
>> TypeInfo. I have some outdated commits here to disable the TypeInfo
>> stuff:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-microD/GDC/commits/microD
>>
>> [...]
>
> Thank you for your detailed answers. Now I do understand that working
> with D and arduino maybe be out of my capability. I may now decide to
> work on porting a parser generator library to phobos. I do know that
> pegged is a parser generator in D. Can this new project be easier? I am
> also quite interested in parsing, so that would be a very good
> experience for me.
>
> Sorry for being such a newbie, I hope you understand my willingness to
> learn.

You may want to stay clear of CTFE which is how pegged works primarily.