GSOC - Holiday Edition

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 12:23:16 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 31/12/2014 03:25, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>
>> 7) Bruno Medeiros - you suggested a DDT project. I've added 
>> it. Can you
>> provide me with a few more details, and a bio.   Also, under 
>> what
>> license is DDT released, I couldn't access any code on your 
>> GitHub page
>> to check this.
>
> Bio:
> Lead developer of DDT - the Eclipse D IDE - on and off from as 
> far back as 2008. Has an interest in toolchain development for 
> upcoming languages such as D, particularly the development of 
> IDEs and IDE semantic functionality. Professionally, works 
> mainly with core Java and Eclipse RCP technologies - currently 
> on R&D projects.
>
>
> DDT is released under the Eclipse Public License. (one tiny 
> component is Apache License)  And yup, several source files 
> still need to be cleaned up to include the license info, I've 
> been a bit lax with that in the past.
>
>
> DDT core engine ideas (only core Java knowledge needed):
> * Make the DDT semantic engine available as a command-line 
> daemon tool (similar to DCD).
> * Add support for source formatting (with formatting options).
> * Add support for semantic search in the semantic engine 
> (search symbols by name and type (for example: "where in my 
> code is the function std.stdio.writeln called?", or "which 
> classes in my code subclass this given class?") .
> * Improve semantic engine / code completion capabilities (for 
> example, understand template instantiation, function overloads, 
> etc.)
>
>
> DDT Eclipse specific ideas:
> * Improve/add UI support for DUB multiple build configurations 
> + launch.
> * Reduce usages of DLTK code, possibly refactoring or rewriting 
> DLTK functionality into an IDE-neutral layer (LangEclipseIDE).
> * Add support for continuous build mode (build and report 
> errors on the fly).
>
> Some of the items in both lists are a bit small for GSoC, so 
> they might have to be combined with others.
>
> The good news is that this year with DDT there is a lot more 
> opportunities with core Java tasks only, which should make it 
> easier for a newbie to join in and contribute. But 
> realistically, it's a long shot that we'll get a candidate of 
> quality for this proposal - Java interest doesn't rank high in 
> the D community... ^_^'

Thank you very much.