I would like to suggest a few ideas for GSoc 2021 for the Swift world, I hope that this is the right place to make this proposal.
Swift on Windows
Windows now uses a binary format (ECMA-based) to describe the shape of the OS APIs. This capability is now used to produce both Rust and C# APIs that give access to the entire set of Windows APIs.
There are already MIT-licensed C# and Rust implementations of this bridge, and could serve as a blueprint to do this. It would allow Swift to be a first class citizen in Windows.
This can be completed during the summer.
Swift on Android
While there is an effort to support Swift on Android, it would be great to create a binding generator that would surface the Android API to Swift developers. Xamarin's open sourced tools have enough support to turn arbitrary Android APIs into C# APIs, and could be used as a reference.
I do not believe that the summer would be enough to complete the work, but it could certainly make some progress in that direction.
Fund TokamakUI
The Tokamak folks have built a SwiftUI engine that runs on WebAssembly and to some extend on Linux. It would be great to fund this effort to get this SwiftUI-like platform to be both more complete, and more polished.
Very good fit for summer of code.
"Swift Tool" support
I would love to have a way of creating command line tools in Swift installed into the system, or for the user, similar to npm install which can turn the project into a command line tool that is installed into the system. This would make it convenient to distribute Unix commands written in Swift.
I’ve touched this point in [Pitch] SwiftPM support for Swift scripts (revision), part of which going to be my choice for GSoC project. You can check the “Alternative considered” part for an alternative solution which I think is better.
Students and mentors should have already received emails via the gsoc tool and should be now kicking off the "bonding period" of the process
We're looking forward to seeing the projects progress and complete sucessfully -- best of luck to all of you!
I'd also like to thank all other students for their submissions: thank you for wanting to help make Swift better and perhaps you'd have a chance next year to apply again?
Respected sir,
I am Shilpee Gupta, a second-year undergraduate student at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women India. I am well aware of Swift, Linux, and c++.
I learned how to install the workflow from Hassan's post on the Swift forum. I read about the swift compiler, standard libraries, package manager, core libraries, swift on the server, REPL playground, and debugger from the Swift website.
I would love to contribute to Swift organization for GSoC 2022 but could you please tell me how should I start from here and learn the prerequisites enough for GSoC 2022.
I wanted to know if you have any projects left in 2021 yet to be implemented in 2022?
Thanks and Regards
Shilpee Gupta
Hi Shiplee,
I replied to your email -- please pick one form of communication, it does not help sending the same message over many different channels
We're not ready yet to share anything about future GSoC participation -- please stay in touch next year.
In the meantime you can try to start a little bit with picking some simpler tasks and ask around on the forums where you could help and/or learn how to contribute.
