Thanks a lot!
As someone who hasn't written much code in chapel, what would you recommend
to get up to speed?
Also, does chapel have bindings to zeroMQ? Jupyter uses ZMQ to talk to the
server (AFAIK), so we would have to write the library otherwise.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 at 22:16 Ben Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Siddharth,
>
> Welcome to the Chapel community!
>
> IRC and mailing lists are currently the best ways to communicate with core
> Chapel developers. You may get a quicker response in the IRC channel:
> #chapel-developers. However, keep in mind that the core Chapel team members
> are distributed across the US, primarily in the PST time zone, so you'll
> observe most activity during typical workday-hours of those time zones. The
> mailing list is always a safe fall back for communication outside of those
> hours.
>
> I think either of your proposed ideas could make a great GSoC project. As
> for the Chapel application, the ported SDL bindings to Chapel (
> https://github.com/mjk8ball/chapel-sdl) may be a good candidate for
> rendering graphics in Chapel. Although, it looks like it has not been
> worked on in over a year, so there may be some maintenance required for
> compatibility with the latest Chapel version.
>
> In case you haven't seen this in the application instructions - please be
> sure to fill out, sign, and send us an ICLA (
> https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/tree/master/doc/developer/contributorAgreements),
> so that we are able to accept your future pull requests on GitHub.
>
> We look forward to learning more about you and helping you get started
> with working on Chapel!
>
> Best,
> Ben
>
>
>
> From: Siddharth Bhat <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 12:12 AM
> To: "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>, "
> [email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
> Subject: [Chapel-developers] Hello everyone
>
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm Siddharth, and I love programming in general. I found Chapel through
> the GSoC 2016 page, and I'd like to submit a proposal under Chapel.
>
> I use a lot of different languages (Haskell, Rust, C/C++, Python, etc),
> and I'd like to learn and use Chapel as well, since it seems to be a
> language that's trying to push computing.
>
> I participated in GSoC last year under VisPy (a graphics and data
> visualisation library for Python), so I'd like to work on something a
> little different this time.
>
> I'd like to either build a complete application (probably a game) using
> Chapel, or create Jupyter bindings for Chapel. Both seem like really fun
> and interesting things to do with the language.
>
> Here is my github: http://github.com/bollu
>
> I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts about the very rough ideas I have :)
>
> Could someone also point me to the IRC? I found #chapel-developers on
> freenode, but it doesn't seem very active.
>
> Super excited to work on this!
>
> Thanks,
> Siddharth
>
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