nim-wiki/GSoC-2014-Ideas.md

# Introduction
Below is a list of project ideas for the 2014 GSoC Application for Nimrod
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# Projects

## Compiler
**Add support for coroutines**
**Fix bugs with iterators/generics**
**Fix/Expand Compiler as a Service features**

## Standard Library
**Integrate and expand new async io module**

**Enhance the filesystem monitoring module "fsmonitor.nim"**
  * Allow the fsmonitor module to work on Windows by using native api's to gather information about changes in monitored files and directories.
  * Revise the fsmonitor module api to decouple unix/linux file handle paradigms (such as using sockets.poll) from the api, allowing easier implementations of native backends.
  * Integrate the fsmonitor module's polling mechanism into the new asynchronous io modules.

**Add a cross-platform stat()-like procedure to the operating system module "os.nim"**
  * Implement a procedure which uses native stat-like calls on Linux, Mac, Windows, and other operating systems to gather detailed information about specific file system objects. Allow the bypassing of symlinks and hardlinks, where possible.

**Enhance and expand standard library documentation**
  * Ensure that documentation exists for all public methods and modules
  * Create and design new CSS and HTML layouts for the documentation, to better fit with the main website
  * Add search capabilities to the documentation

## Tools & Infrastructure
- **Update and refactor nimrod builder**
  * Reduce the number of assumptions the nimrod builder makes about its host system, in order to reduce configuration restrictions. Assumptions include location and usage of external tools, such as git.