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reply Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:
Hi all,

I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six 
amazing GSoC students:

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6103365956665344

As I mentioned in earlier threads, we had a lot of great 
applications and, thus, we had a really hard time with the 
selection.
For the students who we unfortunately couldn't accept this time, 
please stay tuned in D.announce for a few more days, there's 
something very interesting for you that will be announced in a 
few days.

As I presume you already are curious what projects got selected, 
let's get right to it:

Language Server Protocol in D (Manish Khurana)
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This project aims to develop a new fully-functional language 
server for D programming language using dmd library.

Independency of D from the C Standard Library (Stefanos Baziotis)
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An effort to decouple D from the C standard library.


Persistent Data Structures for D (lesderid)
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Developing an idiomatic D library for persistent/immutable data 
structures


Dataframes for D (Prateek Nayak)
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This project aims at bringing native dataframes to D Programming 
Language. The main task would be to implement a dataframe which 
supports multi-indexing, column binary operations, grouping and 
data aggregation. Along with the dataframe will also come 
functionality to parse data from and write data to a CSV file 
without any hassle.


Header generation for C/C++ (Eduard Staniloiu)
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Automated C/C++ header generation from D files


Replace Runtime Hooks with Templates (Dan Printzell)
----------------------------------------------------


D’s betterC mode is an important tool to be able to use D on 
bare-metal and embedded platforms. By disabling, for example the 
class support, the compiles does not need to as many runtime 
functions and types to be implemented for the code to compile and 
link. This makes the life of a bare-metal developer much easier.

But there is a catch! A lot of the language features runtime 
hooks, which in turn requires the TypeInfo class to be able to 
function. One way of solving both of these problems is by moving 
runtime hooks to use templates instead. This solves the betterC 
by removing the dependency of classes (the TypeInfo class), and 
it solves the safety issue because now the compiler will have all 
the information about the hook and it can verify it itself and 
not just trust that the runtime developer remembered to mark the 
hook correctly.

This proposal will work on translating all the array hooks from 
using the TypeInfo class to templates.

What's next?
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For now our GSoC students are in the "community bonding period", 
the actual coding period starts on May 27th.
This means they are strongly encouraged to get familiar with the 
D community, their project and the mentor. In particular this 
means brushing up their D skills, clarifying/improving their 
roadmap and removing/discussing any potential obstacles with 
their mentor / community.

I will publish more infos after DConf.
May 06 2019
next sibling parent M.M. <matus email.cz> writes:
On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six 
 amazing GSoC students:

 [...]


This is really very good news for the D community. Good luck to 
all the students (and the supervisors)!
May 06 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent Meta <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six 
 amazing GSoC students:


Correct me if I'm wrong - isn't this the largest number of 
students yet that D has had for a GSoC? Regardless, amazing news.
May 06 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent Jordan Wilson <wilsonjord gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six 
 amazing GSoC students:

 [...]


Exciting times.
Working for a small data science firm, I'll be interested in 
seeing how Dataframes for D (Prateek Nayak) goes.

Congrats to all the students selected, and all the best.

Jordan
May 06 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:

 Independency of D from the C Standard Library (Stefanos 
 Baziotis)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------

 An effort to decouple D from the C standard library.


Does this mean that the GC will be using 
std.experimental.allocator (as you cannot assume malloc anymore)?


 Header generation for C/C++ (Eduard Staniloiu)
 ----------------------------------------------

 Automated C/C++ header generation from D files


Definitely has a ton of uses


 Replace Runtime Hooks with Templates (Dan Printzell)
 ----------------------------------------------------

 This proposal will work on translating all the array hooks from 
 using the TypeInfo class to templates.


So this is the reason why the compiler refused to compile some 
array operations for me in -betterC. I appreciate that it'll be 
fixed.
May 07 2019
prev sibling parent jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 18:15:54 UTC, Seb wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm very happy to announce that this year we will have six 
 amazing GSoC students:
[snip]


Thanks to all those who helped make this happen. Good luck to the 
students.
May 07 2019