SAOC 2018 ideas
This is a list of potential project ideas for applicants to the Symmetry Autumn of Code.
HTTP/2 for Vibe.d
HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol. Among its advantages belong decreased latency due to (e.g. due to compressed HTTP headers or pipelined requests) or server-push from the server which allows the server to send resources to the client before they are requested. Therefore, Vibe.d - D's flagship web application framework - would vastly profit from implementing HTTP/2.
Graphics library for resource constrained embedded systems
Create a 2D rasterizer, rich drawing primitives, and 2D graphics library suitable for resource constrained embedded systems (e.g. ARM Cortex-M) to be used in industrial controls, home appliances, medical devices, consumer electronics, and IoT just to name a few. The end goal would be something similar to Segger's emWin. The library would be used to drive LDCs similar to https://www.adafruit.com/product/3396 Requirements:
- Hardware agnostic; should simply render to a frame buffer
- No dependencies (No Phobos, no C standard library, and no official D runtime).
- Consider using -betterC, but a custom minimal D runtime is also a viable option
Related work:
- https://github.com/TurkeyMan/color
- https://bitbucket.org/timosi/minlibd
- https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo
DUB: D's package manager
DUB - D's package manager - is one of the central infrastructure tools in the D world as a convenient build and package management tool for the D community. With D gaining more and more popularity, it's also a key tool to guarantee D's further adoption. Thus there are many great ideas to improve DUB:
- separate compilation and caching
- extensibility through DUB
- control flow directives
- build system support for C/C++
- git support
- support dub install for distributions
- support building a {snap, Debian, Arch, ...} package out of DUB package
