Add sed completion project idea for GSOC

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- Basic knowledge about the terminal usage
## Complete the Rust implementation of `sed`
The `sed` (stream editor) utility is a fundamental Unix tool for parsing and transforming text. A Rust implementation has been started but requires significant work to achieve full compatibility with GNU `sed` and POSIX standards.
This project focuses on completing the existing Rust `sed` implementation to make it production-ready. The work involves implementing missing commands and flags, fixing edge cases, improving regular expression support, and ensuring the implementation passes the GNU test suite.
Key areas of work include:
* Implementing missing `sed` commands and addressing flags
* Handling complex regular expressions and backreferences
* Supporting multi-line pattern space operations
* Implementing hold space operations correctly
* Adding support for GNU `sed` extensions
* Fixing edge cases and improving error handling
* Running and passing the GNU `sed` test suite
* Performance optimization and memory safety improvements
- **Difficulty**: Medium
- **Size**: ~175 hours
- **Mentors**: TBD
- **Required skills**:
- Rust
- Understanding of regular expressions
- Familiarity with `sed` usage and scripting
- Text processing and parsing concepts
## Rust implementation of `awk`
The goal of this project is to create a Rust-based implementation of `awk`, one of the most powerful and widely-used text processing utilities in Unix/Linux systems. The `awk` utility provides a complete programming language for pattern scanning and processing, making it essential for data extraction, report generation, and text transformation tasks.