On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 12:23:16 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 31/12/2014 03:25, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
7) Bruno Medeiros - you suggested a DDT project. I've added
it. Can you
provide me with a few more details, and a bio. Also, under
what
license is DDT released, I couldn't access any code on your
GitHub page
to check this.
Bio:
Lead developer of DDT - the Eclipse D IDE - on and off from as
far back as 2008. Has an interest in toolchain development for
upcoming languages such as D, particularly the development of
IDEs and IDE semantic functionality. Professionally, works
mainly with core Java and Eclipse RCP technologies - currently
on R&D projects.
DDT is released under the Eclipse Public License. (one tiny
component is Apache License) And yup, several source files
still need to be cleaned up to include the license info, I've
been a bit lax with that in the past.
DDT core engine ideas (only core Java knowledge needed):
* Make the DDT semantic engine available as a command-line
daemon tool (similar to DCD).
* Add support for source formatting (with formatting options).
* Add support for semantic search in the semantic engine
(search symbols by name and type (for example: "where in my
code is the function std.stdio.writeln called?", or "which
classes in my code subclass this given class?") .
* Improve semantic engine / code completion capabilities (for
example, understand template instantiation, function overloads,
etc.)
DDT Eclipse specific ideas:
* Improve/add UI support for DUB multiple build configurations
+ launch.
* Reduce usages of DLTK code, possibly refactoring or rewriting
DLTK functionality into an IDE-neutral layer (LangEclipseIDE).
* Add support for continuous build mode (build and report
errors on the fly).
Some of the items in both lists are a bit small for GSoC, so
they might have to be combined with others.
The good news is that this year with DDT there is a lot more
opportunities with core Java tasks only, which should make it
easier for a newbie to join in and contribute. But
realistically, it's a long shot that we'll get a candidate of
quality for this proposal - Java interest doesn't rank high in
the D community... ^_^'
Thank you very much.
