Time to invent a different file format to hold meta data info

[Walter Bright]

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> Of course, I'm sure a better API could be devised.  This sort of format, 
> if properly standardized, could be used to make IDEs much more 
> efficient.  It would also allow for much better and more accurate error 
> reporting, and the compiler could be loaded as a shared object so that 
> initialization cost would be low.
> 
> Most language services for Visual Studio are essentially a large part of 
> the compiler (often reimplemented in C# or some such) without the code 
> generation.  It seems like such a silly and obvious waste to me.

That's why Ddoc is part of the compiler, so it can get the syntax 
highlighting right.