[GSoC 2025] Introduction

[AlbertG]

Hi everyone,

I'm Albert, a 2nd year CS student at Politehnica University of 
Bucharest and I am excited to introduce myself as one of this 
year's GSoC contributors.

The project I am working on[1], mentored by Teo Dutu, aims to 
finalize the templatization of runtime hooks he previously worked 
on.

So far, I have successfully templated some of the targeted hooks, 
namely 
[`_d_arraysetcapacity`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21143), 
[`_d_arrayappendcTX`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21205), 
[`_d_arrayshrinkfit`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21373) 
and [`_d_dynamic_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21402). 
Currently I am working on the remaining casting hooks, with a PR 
open for 
[`_d_paint_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21427). At 
the same time, I am also trying to add benchmarks to evaluate the 
performance gains[2].

Throughout the GSoC period, I plan on posting weekly updates on 
my progress.

Looking forward to sharing more soon!

Thanks,
Albert

[1] https://dlang.github.io/GSoC/gsoc-2025/template-hooks.html
[2] https://github.com/teodutu/druntime-hooks-benchmarks/pull/1