On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 14:53:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
This year, DConf has an extra day tacked on for problem solving
in the form of a hackathon. The intent is to work on issues
people find frustrating in the D ecosystem. While there will be
time given at the event for proposals, and those involving
third-party projects are welcome, it will help speed things
along for the organizers to come in with a list of big issues
to get the ball rolling.
To help in compiling the list, what are some major issues from
the ecosystem that you'd like to see fixed?
Not so much major issue but I would like to:
* figure out a solution for
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2011
* consider the merits of standardising allocSize
(https://github.com/ldc-developers/druntime/blob/ldc/src/ldc/attributes.d#L16) or equivalent among dmd/ldc/gdc
* get half precision floating point into the language /or/
ability to create __vector's of user types (need for intrinsics
for GPU et al targets of dcompute).
I would also like to hold a mini hackathon/gauge interest in
dcompute as we could benefit significantly from the ML craze.
