DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 05/14/2017 07:07 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6777
>
> It turned out to be unexpectedly easy to implement.
>
> The only downside is now we have to rather tediously tweak the error
> message texts so they use backticks.

Color is informative to humans, so I'm all for it. I agree with others 
that it may be hard to please everyone. Is it possible to use the 
default scheme of the terminal?

I had the good fortune of sitting with Chandler Carruth and other C++ 
people during dinner here at C++Now. We did talk about error reporting 
and although it's mostly agreed that clang's errors are a big 
improvement, Chandler said that no matter how short or informative, 
people still don't read error messages! I'm not surprised: people are 
people. (I'm one and proud of it. :) )

According to Chandler, Rust got this right: Apparently, Rust shows the 
code *first*, then the error message underneath it. Chandler said that 
this trivial change in error reporting has been transformative and now 
people are very happy with Rust's error messages.

Ali