Symmetry Autumn of Code

[Mike Franklin]

On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 10:24:14 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:

> But this BetterC minimalistic standard library (allocations, 
> arrays, strings, slices, maps) is something which can be reused 
> by many similar hardware-level projects.
>
> This is a project on its own, and as I said, I think it should 
> better be provided to the candidate so he can use his 
> development time on developing the rasterizer, and, if there is 
> enough time, a minimalistic nuklear-like gui system over it to 
> demonstrate its performance and usefulness.

Indeed, having to port the druntime to new hardware is definitely 
not in scope.  I can't anticipate what features of the language 
the developer will employ, but as long as they stay within the 
-betterC subset of the language, I think it will be portable to 
something like that used in 
https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo

Even if it isn't portable, if it compiles and runs in -betterC on 
a PC, it will still be an excellent foundation to build on, and 
I'd still call it a success.

Mike