Status Update March 2025
Mike Parker
aldacron at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 09:48:53 UTC 2025
Here are updates on some of the projects Razvan Nitu, our Project
Coordinator, is tracking. For reference, the Februrary updates
are here:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mdkryddvjaqmuwexcneh@forum.dlang.org
### Phobos v3
Johnathan made progress on porting traits related to type
introspection on functions. He had "either completed or nearly
completed a number of them". Because of the extent to which
they're related, he wanted to get the bulk of them done together
so that he didn't have to go back and modify any of them. He
didn't have any PRs for them yet, but he was close.
### The new GC
When he updated me, Razvan had not had a direct update from Steve
recently, but he had been tracking Steve's progress on the GitHub
repository:
https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/symgc
According to the README there, Steve has ported 36 of 37 files
from the SDC GC implementation.
### Editions
Atila has [submitted the Editions
DIP](https://forum.dlang.org/post/epzrvlljudykzhgwrpku@forum.dlang.org) to the Development forum for feedback.
### DMD releases
Dennis is handling DMD releases for now. He wants to keep to the
same schedule we've had. He still needs to upload the new
download index to our BackBlaze account and would be grateful for
some help from anyone familiar with it.
### Google Summer of Code
The contributor application period opened on March 24th and
closes today (April 8th). A big issue on the GSoC mailing lists
this year is that many projects have been receiving "spam"
proposals created by LLMs. Some projects have chosen to ignore
them.
At the time he updated me (this past weekend), Razvan didn't know
if we had received any such proposals. He needed to sync with the
rest of the mentors to see where we were at.
### Other
Walter and Atila have conditionally approved Quirin Schroll's
[DIP 1049, "Primary Type
Synax"](https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1049.md). They've requested some changes in how the parser disambiguates certain cases. The three of them and myself had a meeting about it on March 29th. When Quirin is able to make time for it, he will rework his implementation. If all goes well with that, he'll revise the DIP as requested. Otherwise, Walter and Atila will have to reconsider the initial implementation.
Razvan has been coordinating on some projects with Teodor Dutu,
other students from their university, and one of Mike Shah's
students. He can provide updates on those if there's any
interest, so please let us know here if you'd like to hear about
them.
I did not get caught up on the DLF meeting summaries last month
as I'd intended. I've finished the first drafts for the November
and December monthlies and the January quarterly. I'll publish
the November one shortly after this post and the next two over
the next two days. The January monthly will follow in a few days.
Almost there!
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