Google Summer of Code 2016

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/01/16 11:28 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 22:58:43 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>> The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th.
>>> Which means we have about a month and a half to put something
>>> together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with
>>> one dropped so far):
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas
>>>
>>> Since we were rejected with, more or less, the same set of proposals
>>> last year it seems unlikely we would succeed this year with the same
>>> lineup.  So some new ideas (or some refreshing of the existing ideas)
>>> would be helpful.
>>>
>> clip
>>
>>>
>>> Happy New Year to everyone.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>
>> Just bumping my own thread here.
>>
>> Is there any interest is doing a GSOC application this year within the
>> community? I don't mind doing the admin work, but having even a couple
>> of solid new ideas for projects would improve the odds of a successful
>> application.
>
> What do you think about the idea of building higher-level bindings for
> Apple mobile + Android as a project, now that the compiler itself is at
> a useful stage of development?

For Android you really need an easy way to interface with JNI.
And that means another library.
There is a library that really isn't complete [0], is my fork.

I made the JNI bindings be derelict style.
If the demand is there I'll move them over to alphaPhobos with my 
updated DerelictUtil loader.

jvm.d is a bit cleaner and has comments.
It is also very magical in loading and will make things 'just work'.
I.e. it patches up stdout ext. on Windows.

I also did some serious clean up regarding to the abstractions around 
fields, classes and methods.

Craig Dillabaugh if you are interested in working on this with me, 
please let me know.

[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/djvm