A simple question

[David Nadlinger]

On Friday, 16 November 2012 at 00:11:19 UTC, Stugol wrote:
> Are these bugs likely to be addressed, or am I likely to be 
> told to fuck off again?

Ah, now things become clearer. The issue here is that what you 
are describing is not an actual bug, but the consequence of you 
not specifying one of the source files you imported as part of 
the compiler command (use rdmd if you don't want to deal with 
such things). Granted, the diagnostics for it are terrible, you 
just get to see the raw linker error message.

It has been agreed on that usability issues such as this are 
important, particularly because they mostly affect newcomers and 
might scare them away. The issue just is that nobody has found 
the time to work on this yet – the main compiler devs 
intuitively tend to focus on the »meaty« issues which actually 
cause the language to behave incorrectly for _all_ users. Also, 
if you are used to working on compilers, error messages such as 
the one you posted are naturally easy to understand, which might 
lead to some perception bias regarding usability.

In general, things such as this would be a great first problem to 
attack for somebody interesting in compiler development.

David