Mini Projects

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David Christiansen edited this page Feb 18, 2014 · 26 revisions

If you’re interested in contributing to Idris, there are several jobs and mini-projects which would help. For example:

Adding libraries and functions to the base package.
A :search function for the REPL, to find functions by name or by type (similar to Hoogle)
Improving the termination and productivity checkers. The current version works in principle, but has a number of issues which need addressing.
Expanding the tutorial with detailed examples and exercises (or even writing a new one)
Investigating and fixing the reports on the issue tracker (low-hanging fruit designates issues that we believe to be easier than others)
Refactoring the parser.
A Haddock like tool for documenting APIs
Low level bindings for various C APIs, including, but not limited to:
Network sockets
libgcrypt/libsodiu,
libSDL
High level, more dependently typed bindings for the above.
Polishing the packaging system
Proof automation, for example:
A Presburger arithmetic solver.
Commutative ring rewriting.
Packaging for Mac, for ease of installation (ideally not requiring a Haskell platform installed)
Packaging for Windows