Ideas for students' summer projects

[Mike Franklin]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 16:27:05 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:

> Let the brainstorming begin!

I would like to see a dependency-less Phobos-like library that 
can be used by the DMD compiler, druntime, -betterC, and other 
runtime-less/phobos-less use cases.  It would have no 
dependencies whatsoever.

There's a lot of useful stuff in Phobos that does not need to be 
dependent on other Phobos modules or Druntime.  std.meta is the 
first that likely comes to mind, but then there's also traits, 
typecons, demangle, etc..

As a contrived illustration, take a look at the code in 
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/core/internal/string.d  Those same features are also in Phobos.

Such a library would make more D idioms available to the 
compilers, druntime, and those that are programming runtime-less 
applications like bare-metal, operating systems, 
microcontrollers, or libraries used from other languages.

I already started a project at https://github.com/JinShil/utiliD 
just a few days ago.  It'd be great is someone else could do the 
work instead :-)

Mike