Suggested Perl 6 project for the Google Summer of Code

Google has been sponsoring the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) since 2005. It provides an opportunity for bright young computer science students to get paid for a summer supporting a Free and Open Source (FOSS) project that has been approved by Google. See https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com for more information.

One such GSOC FOSS project is https://brlcad.org which has been a GSOC-supported project for many years. This summer, as in the past several years, BRL-CAD is the lead for a consortium of several FOSS CAD projects. If you go to https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations and search for “brlcad” you will see one student project uses Python. There is no reason why Perl 6 could not be used equivently in BRL-CAD as a wrapper and glue language around the very stable BRL-CAD C/C++ ray-tracing libraries.

I recommend BRL-CAD because I supported it for many years and used Perl 5 with it, and Perl 6 would be a much better fit. The team leaders and the rest of the community are very friendly and welcoming, and that carries a lot of weight when evaluating a project to join. It’s also a very international community with contributors from all over the world.

But there are lots of GSOC projects, and one can find many that could use a Perl 6 interface in one way or another.

I wish you good hunting!