GSoC 2017 Proposal: Julia Integration in Kdevelop

[geetam]

Thanks a lot for the feedback Boudhayan, I have now updated my proposal 
with a link to my github repo of some simple Julia scripts, and your 
point about burning out seems to make sense, therefore I have made some 
changes to my proposal.

Again thanks for reviewing,

Best,

Geetam Chawla.


On Monday 03 April 2017 02:06 AM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote:
> Hi Geetam,
>
>
> On 2 April 2017 at 22:07, Geetam Chawla <geetam.chawla at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Geetam,
>>> I'm a little surprised you've picked a project where you add support
>>> for a language to an IDE when you say you have only elementary
>>> knowledge of Julia.
>> I don't think that my lack of in-depth knowledge of julia will affect
>> the quality of plugin that I will develop as it will be done with the
>> help of a language server. Most of the code will be written in c++.
> I like this part of the proposal very much - the use of the VSCode
> language server extension. Note that GSoC rules don't allow
> collaboration in a project between two students, so it's quite
> possible that we'll end up with two implementations of the same thing
> unless we can find a creative way of bypassing that rule while still
> keeping with the spirit of the law.
>
> I'm going to presume you're capable enough of learning the bits and
> pieces of Julia that need to be learnt as and when required. With this
> presumption:
>
>>> Have you ever used Julia before?
>> I used it in my university course for numerical methods.
> Good, so you know how to use the language. Could we see some code?
>
>>> Was Julia good enough for your use-case?
>> Yes, It worked pretty well.
>>
>>> Why are you motivated enough to add support for that particular language
>>> into KDevelop?
>> What impressed me about julia is how easy is it to get something done in
>> julia and yet it is as fast as languages like go and rust, also going by the
>> trends it is likely to get more popular as time goes by.
> I don't buy this. A simple internet search reveals R is more in demand
> in the job market and growing faster. However, if you're convinced
> Julia is the tool you'll need to get most of your work done, that's a
> good enough reason to do this.
>
>>> In between that and the fact that you'll be unavailable for 4 weeks or
>>> so for your university finals I'm a little sceptical about this
>>> proposal.
>> I am sorry perhaps I should have formatted it better, but May 16 to June 7
>> is about 3 weeks, and my university finals take place over a period of 2
>> weeks, now since I do not know the exact schedule of my university finals,
>> I thought it would be a good idea to list 3 weeks a possible period of
>> inactivity. I do not believe in overpromising and under delivering.
> Yes, private Indian universities suck in this regard. Whether or not
> this unavailability will be a major problem, will need to be decided
> collectively by other mentors.
>
>> I was actually planning to work 10 hrs a day for the whole summer to make
>> sure that
> Whoa there, that's 50 hours a week (70 if you plan on working
> weekends). Not only is that severely unrealistic, you'll burn out
> pretty fast if you try that.
>
> The FAQ states that you'll expect to work 30+ hours a week. A standard
> working contract here in Germany is about 38-42 hours a week, and
> that's usually the sweet spot for most people between productivity and
> sanity preservation. I'd like you to re-evaluate that last statement
> and make a more realistic commitment :-)
>
> I think you're looking good with that proposal, but I do see you're
> overenthusiastic and prone to making unrealistic commitments (which is
> both a really good thing and a really bad thing). I'd say take it
> easy, sleep on it tonight, and revise this if needed with a fresh mind
> tomorrow. If you think you can stick to exactly what you've written
> after thinking about it, we'll evaluate that too - just take some time
> to think.
>
> Also, just so that you don't accidentally miss the deadline (it's
> Tuesday 12:30 AM IST, I think), please submit a final copy of the
> proposal on WithGoogle. I believe you can update it later, and if not
> in exceptional cases you can mail in an updated proposal to us.
>
> Again, you're looking good. You can do this!
>
> Freundliche Grüße
> Boudhayan Gupta
> KDE e.V. - Sysadmin and Community Working Groups
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