Symmetry Autumn of Code 2025 Has Begun

[Mike Parker]

September 15th marks the beginning of the first SAOC 2025 
milestone. We received more applications this year than we've 
ever seen. Thanks to everyone who submitted. We wish we could 
have accepted them all.

We have funding for three participants. Our three judges, 
Jonathan M. Davis, Átila Neves, and Robert Schadek, sorted 
through all the applications and settled on three projects that 
are aimed at enhancing the D user experience.

Mohamed El Shorbagy is furthering work on the ongoing compiler 
project to separate semantic routines from AST nodes. This work 
is foundational to implementing DMD as a library. Razvan Nitu is 
his mentor.

Sourish Jana is adding structured hints to D's error messages 
(e.g., 'did you mean...') and exposing diagnostics in JSON for 
better IDE/LSP integration. This will benefit every D programmer. 
His mentor is Nicholas Wilson.

Emmanuel Nyarko, who worked on enhancing D's C++ interop in SAOC 
2023, is back for another round. This time, he's focused on 
improving ImportC. His goal is to reduce the number of open 
ImportC-related issues. Dennis Korpel is his mentor.

I ask you to join me in wishing each participant a successful 
event. Keep an eye out for their weekly forum updates starting 
next week. I know they'll be thankful for any feedback you may 
have for them.