The Factor project is applying for Summer of Code. Here are our project ideas.
Applications
- Write a structure editor
- Write a text editor
- Write an IRC client
- Write a package manager for Factor
- Write a file manager
Enterprise Factor
- Update the bindings to MySQL, Oracle, ODBC for the latest DB framework in extra/db
- Add bindings for DB2, Informix, SQL Server, Sybase, etc
- Write a MySQL binding in Factor instead of calling the C library to permit nonblocking I/O operation and avoid GPL licensing issues
- Write high-level wrapper for OpenSSL binding which implements encrypted Factor streams
- Write a SOAP stack
- Improve the continuation-based web framework with ideas from Seaside
Embedded Languages
- Improve the Prolog implementation in extra/prolog
- Revive extra/lisp
- Write an assembler to a microcontroller and cross-compile applications from within Factor
- Write an infix math DSL
- Write a 'language X' to Factor compiler, where X is C, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Elisp, etc
Miscellaneous Libraries
- Write a binding and high level interface to zlib or implement gzip compression in Factor
- Finish the tar library
- Finish the packet sniffer libraries
- Implement the math algorithm of your choice for extra/math
- Implement the data structures described in Purely Functional Data Structures
- Write a COM interface
- Improve the JNI library
- Write a JNI-like bridge for Android
- Write a wrapper for Windows Mobile libraries to make calls and send SMSs
- Integrate the zoneinfo timezone database with Factor's calendar library
- Add more calendars to the library, such as Persian, Hebrew, Islamic, Chinese, Hindu, Buddhist
Factor VM
- Write a GC profiler
- Make GC memory areas shrink after garbage collection
- Implement dtrace probes
- Make continuations serializable
User Interface
- Write a binding to an image manipulation library
- Finish bitmap library
- Improve the look of Factor's UI gadgets
- Add drag and drop support
- Add any of the following gadgets: tabs, syntax highlighting text editor using the xmode library, combo boxes, tables, trees, spinners
- Implement native font rendering on Windows
