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Add your project here. If you have lots of ideas, please create a separate page for your project and link it here. Adding more design and guidance information will improve the chances of the project actually getting completed.

Individual Core Development Projects

  • Small: suitable for a branch, a Bachelor's-level thesis project
  • Medium: suitable for a GSoC project, Bachelor's-level group project, or a reasonable-sized grant proposal
  • Large: suitable for a Master's thesis, PhD dissertation, or other large-scale research project.
Name Size Synopsis
Generational Garbage Collector medium (in progress in the generational_gc branch)
Compacting Garbage Collector large
Concurrent Garbage Collector medium
LLVM JIT Backend medium
libJIT Backend medium
Trace-Based JIT large Add a trace-based JIT runcore
Context-Threaded Runcore medium
Polymorphic Inline Cache medium (for a small implementation)
NFG medium Add NFG string normalization form (partially completed in 2010 GSoC project)
GObject Metamodel medium Create an object metamodel for Parrot based on GObject
Prototype-based Metamodel medium Create a prototype-based object metamodel suitable for languages like JavaScript

Compiler Projects

  • Small: A toy language, or based heavily on another language for which we have an existing compiler project
  • Medium: Most general-purpose programming languages, not including large runtime libraries
  • Large: A particularly large language, or a language with a particularly large and involved runtime library

This is not a comprehensive list of languages for which we would like to see compilers written.

Name Size Synopsis
Vala Compiler medium Create a compiler for the  Vala programming language
Groovy Compiler medium
Fantom Compiler medium