Great, thanks for the update!
Is there any update on the status of the ZMQ bindings? If not, where can I
start from?
Also, are there any low hanging issues that I can start tackling?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 at 06:53 Ben Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Siddharth,
>
> The brand new http://chapel.cray.com/learning.html page is a great place
> to start for learning Chapel.
>
> You are correct about the ZMQ bindings - this would be the first phase of
> this project. There is a CHIP (
> https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/master/doc/chips/3.rst)
> written about ZMQ bindings, but no implementation yet. There is also a
> Chapel contributor who may have done some work on this already. I have
> pinged him to check on his progress. We might be able to build upon his
> previous work rather than starting from scratch.
>
> Best,
> Ben
>
> From: Siddharth Bhat <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 9:21 AM
> To: Benjamin Albrecht <[email protected]>, "
> [email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Chapel-developers] Hello everyone
>
> 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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