Category: GSoC

The D Language Foundation Google Summer of Code 2016 Postmortem

Craig Dillabaugh was first drawn to D by its attractive syntax and Walter Bright’s statement that D is “a programming language, not a religion”. He maintains bindings to the geospatial libraries shapelib and gdal, volunteered to manage the GSoC 2015 & 2016 efforts for D, and has taken it on again for 2017. He lives… Continue reading The D Language Foundation Google Summer of Code 2016 Postmortem

GSoC Report: std.experimental.xml

Lodovico Giaretta is currently pursuing a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. He participated in Google Summer of Code 2016, working on a new XML module for D’s standard library, Phobos. I started coding in high school with Pascal. I immediately fell in love with programming, so I started studying… Continue reading GSoC Report: std.experimental.xml

GSoC Report: DStep

Wojciech Szęszoł is a Computer Science major at the University of Wrocław. As part of Google Summer of Code 2016, he chose to make improvements to Jacob Carlborg’s DStep, a tool to generate D bindings from C and Objective-C header files. It was December of last year and I was writing an image processing project… Continue reading GSoC Report: DStep