Swift is based LLVM,what will the D's LDC do?

[Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d]

Hi Matheus!

On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 15:44:02 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 13:27:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> No one wants to work on GDC/LDC, so they shall remain obscure 
>> in
>> development and tailing behind current development.
>
> Please could you tell more about the requirements/background 
> that a person needs to fill this work?
>
> I'm programmer for a while now, I wrote some: Business Systems 
> (Job), games and small interpreters (Hobby) etc. But I always 
> thought about contributing on my spare time, but I don't know 
> how I could fill on this work.
>
> Matheus.

For LDC it should be quite easy. :-)

First, build LDC from source. Instructions are here: 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source. Building LLVM 
from source it not a requirement but helps in tracking down 
problems.

If you master this step then you can choose a problem to tackle. 
Personally, I started with a merge of latest DMD frontend. This 
will be a round trip through the source because of possible merge 
conflicts. (For sure, the result can be contributed as a pull 
request.)

Another simple way to get started is to pick an open issue - see 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues. Fire up the 
debugger, set a breakpoint and step through the code and try 
identifying the root cause...

IMHO the only requirement is some knowledge of C++ (and having 
fun reading source and coding!). But even if you only know D (or 
only want to code in D) then there are some open tasks. If you or 
anybody else is interested in this please ask in the LDC 
newsgroup.

Regards,
Kai