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Google Summer of Code projects

Beta Ziliani edited this page Feb 19, 2022 · 9 revisions

Crystal Google Summer of Code project ideas

Here we list projects ideas to be work within GSoC.

Potential mentors

Mentors include:

  • @beta-ziliani
  • @straight-shoota

Projects

Completing Windows support

There is ongoing efforts to allow Crystal to work in a native fashion in Windows. From tidying up platform agnostic abstractions, to deal with specific OS API, representation, and setting bases for CI you can help Crystal reach a new land.

The related issue shows the progress made so far.

Possible mentor: @straight-shoota
Required skills: Windows SDK, Crystal or Ruby
Difficulty: Advanced


A New Garbage Collector for Crystal

Currently Crystal uses libgc/bdwgc. While a great collector that works out of the box, we believe a specific collector for Crystal could benefit from the knowledge of the types of objects. Interestingly, this could be done in Crystal itself. @ysbaddaden has a prototype implementation in C of an alternative generic collector for Crystal. Your work will be to first port it to Crystal, and then complete it with different optimizations (some details are in the prototype's page).

Possible mentor: @beta-ziliani
Required skills: C, Crystal or Ruby, Difficulty: Advanced


Formalizing the language

There is no formal document for the semantic of the language. Although there are tons of test in the spec of the compiler to ensure things work as expected, it would be great to have a proper specification of how the language work (or should work). This is not a simple document task. Checking if the compiler comply the specs in one of hidden challenges in this journey.

Possible mentor: @beta-ziliani
Required skills: Programming language semantics
Difficulty: Advanced