On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 12:20:39 UTC, Kira Backes wrote:
On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 00:19:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
There's a bit of budget (a few hundred only) earmarked for
GDC- and LDC-specific stuff.
Maybe there’s just not so many people around who can help with
compilers? I’m an application developer and can surely also
help with the library, but hacking on the compiler is something
I’ve never done (and don’t know if I would be any good at it)
+1. The front-end source code shared by the compilers uses C++,
and the style of C++ used is not exactly state of the art. These
two facts probably make compiler contributions unappealing to
most community members. The bounties are a nice perk, but before
the bounty even comes into play, the developer needs to make the
plunge into the front-end code base.
The bounties almost exclusively target compiler issues
(understandably), so with the relative dearth of compiler
developers, I'm not surprised that the bounties haven't changed
much.
