Student (retired) @ Google Summer of Code 2015 @ University of Massachusetts
IntelliJ IDEA
Natural Environment for most developers
Java IDE (since 2001)
Scala IDE (since late 2009)
All the official plugins - 1457
IntelliJ in numbers
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.
Who and how?
GSoC in numbers
11th edition
1051 accepted students this year
73 countries
335 from India
33 from Poland
137 open source organizations
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June - August
(12 weeks)
me & GSoC 2015
AutoMan Monitoring and Debugging Plugin
for IntelliJ IDEA
AutoMan allows programmers to write sophisticated human-computer programs, current problems:
humans behave very differently than computers
programs that manage hundreds or thousands of workers
copious status messages only on STDOUT
Technical challenges
They have a basic information-reporting facility in AutoMan, that allows information to be exported - needs refinement - some hacking in Scala
AutoMan is highly concurrent and IntelliJ Plugins need to be thread-safe using IntelliJ's concurrency model - these models ale totally different (threads vs. futures/actors)
