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How You Can Contribute

If you are interested in any of these areas, please talk to us on IRC or our mailing list.

Many of the projects below require little or no pre-existing knowledge of the Dylan language.

General Areas

These are areas where most developers, even Dylan beginners, should be able to help out.

• Documentation
• Windows Improvements

Compiler and Runtime

This section is for lowlevel tasks that require significant system engineering expertise. If you're looking for a challenge then these are for you.

• Generic Function Dispatch Improvements
• Debugger Integration
• LLVM Compiler Backend
• C Backend and Runtime Improvements
• Numbers -- Improvements to Floats, Doubles, Integers
• SSE Math
• Atomics
• Type System Improvements
• Garbage Collection
• Runtime Changes
• Coroutines
• Unicode
• Security

Tooling

• Kythe Indexer Add Dylan support to Google's open sourced Kythe indexer. Requires augmenting the compiler to output data in the right format, or possibly implementing a post-processing step that transforms the compiler databases. I think dfmc/browser-support has the APIs for this info.
• Package Manager dylan get --version=2.0 some.lib.from.the.intarwebz, dylan build my.package, etc

Platform Portability

Port Open Dylan to a new platform or fix an existing port, getting deeply familiar with the environment in the process.

• FreeBSD x86-64 Port
• iOS Port
• Android Port
• Emscripten Port
• Linux ARM Port

Packaging and Installers

Help make Dylan more accessible by packaging it for your system distribution.

• Mac OS X Packaging
• Linux Packaging
• Windows Installer

Libraries

Help maintain existing libraries or join the effort to create new ones.

• Collections Library
• I/O Library
• System Library
• PostgreSQL Client Library
• LevelDB Library
• SQLite Library
• LibGit2
• Serialization Library
• Networking Improvements
• Objective-C Bridge
• GTK+ support
• Python Bridge
• Cryptography
• DUIM
• uWSGI Binding
• Logging Library
• Color Output
• Testworks
• Object Differ -- could be part of Testworks, or not.

Editor Support

Improve support for Dylan in your editor of choice.

• Emacs: https://github.com/dylan-lang/dylan-mode
• Vim
• Sublime Text
• CodeMirror
• Gedit
• VSCode: https://github.com/dylan-lang/vscode-dylan

Cleanup

Various kinds of cleanup tasks that nobody got around to yet.

• Strings Library
• Property Lists