FlightAware are sponsoring a programme of bounties for improving Tcl and (selected) extensions.
Full details here: https://github.com/flightaware/Tcl-bounties
Note that these bounties are not sufficiently generous to be considered pay (given how much a software engineer should be able to earn). They're more awards for things someone might be inclined to do anyway.
Projects
In progress
- A reasonable C API for enumerating an array
- Speed up clock format and clock scan (2X, 4X, 10X)
- array foreach
- Support for SO_REUSEPORT on server sockets
- TIP 456: [L3 ]
- Code: [L4 ]
- Tcl package introspection improvements
- tclreadline improvements
- Discussion: [L6 ]
- Code: [L7 ]
- Support for epoll()/kqueue() to replace select() in socket handling
- TIP 458: [L8 ]
- Code: [L9 ]
- A first class, high-performance, non-hackish way to do named parameters
- Call-by-name syntactic sugar for proc definitions that would obviate most uses of upvar
Completed
(coming soon)
Not yet claimed
- Upgrade the scotty extension (TEA)
- Upgrade the scotty extension (UDP)
- Clean up of tcltls
- Revive the Tcl Pro debugger
- Make TclX's signal trap handlers safe to use with threaded Tcl
- Make TclX's profiler work properly with Tcl 8.6
- Stop Tcl from eating child process exit status gratuitously
- after -at
- array default arrayName value
- Interested expressed by AMG, no code yet
- Tcl runtime performance improvements (2X)
- Tcl runtime performance improvements (10X)
- DKF: It is not possible to get a 10x speedup without going to native code somewhere.