[GSoC 2019] Interested in Baremetal D Runtime and project ideas

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-04-04 15:56, Stefanos Baziotis wrote:

> Unfortunately, probably I came late on the GSoC as I learned about it just
> 2 days before, so any info about it and/or D's selection process would 
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm mainly interested on the Baremetal D runtime project, as I am mostly 
> comfortable
> with low-level C programming. I have developed some allocators [1]
> and have some SIMD experience as I have written a small image 
> convolution MPI
> program that uses AVX extensions [2].

There's another potential GSoC student that has started a thread related 
to baremetal [1].

> I'm interested in other projects as well, specifically compiler-related 
> and the persistent data structures.

Same for persistent data structures [2][3]. Here are some compiler and 
GSoC related threads [4][5].

> I'm very enthusiastic to learn a lot about any of these projects, but I 
> would like to
> ask: What is the expected / required experience / knowledge / skills?
> Also, is this the best place to discuss about this subject?

Make sure you check the wiki page as well [6].

[1] https://forum.dlang.org/thread/cxntuuqepymkugvvrxhz@forum.dlang.org
[2] https://forum.dlang.org/thread/wvhuvdydvwjkwukawtmk@forum.dlang.org
[3] https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ygdbtgfablwkdxhhvbsy@forum.dlang.org
[4] https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ersuicbdvzxsliafvpjv@forum.dlang.org
[5] https://forum.dlang.org/thread/iwvtxsecerbshhagaunj@forum.dlang.org
[6] https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2019_Ideas

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/Jacob Carlborg