[GSoC] Project ideas on Ceylon

[Pubudu Fernando]

Hi,

I'm a 3rd year Computer Engineering undergraduate at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I came across the Ceylon projects while browsing projects for GSoC and it immediately caught my attention for obvious reasons :D I am interested in language internals and have taken Theory of Computing and Programming Languages modules last semester. I haven't picked a particular project yet. But I am interested in the projects API Diffs, JVM Compatibility Checker and Markdown Processor. Can you please elaborate a bit more on the requirements for those 3 projects? 

API Diffs

If I understood correctly, the requirement is to add a new feature to the Ceylon doc generator: the ability to generate API diffs in HTML format. Currently, the doc generator is a command line tool right? So the task would be to add a new command/option to that tool to generate the API diffs?

JVM Compatibility Checker

What does it mean to say 2 Ceylon binaries are binary-compatible? Does that mean one binary can be used by the other without modification to the binary? i.e: whether one binary compiled, targeting a specific JVM, can be used by another binary compiled targeting a different JVM? 

Markdown Processor

This projects probably interests me the most. This would mean writing a converter to convert from Markdown to HTML right? What's the end goal of this processor? Is this intended as a standalone tool? Maybe as a sample application done using Ceylon? Or is this intended to be added/published as a library, which other Ceylon apps can make use of? 

Would appreciate it if you can address these queries. :) 

Thanks

Pubudu

[Tomáš Hradec]

Below are related issues, please target your question there

Compatibility -  https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon/issues/6076

API Diffs - https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon/issues/6075

Markdown - https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon-sdk/issues/521

Thanks

T.

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