SDC needs you -- redux

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 22:44:02 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> I could offer to work on dub and travis-ci integration, but 
> there doesn't even seem to exists a cmdline interface?
>

What do you mean by this ?

> bin/sdc --help
> HELP !
> core.exception.RangeError at sdc/src/sdc/main.d(51): Range 
> violation
>

The command line argument handling is, indeed, not the best you 
can have. I never really focused on that. That is a easy way to 
contribute some improvement.

> Also some of the TODO items really look very feasible.
> https://github.com/deadalnix/SDC/issues/125
>
> What I'd like to see though, is a prioritized list of stuff 
> that needs
> to be done to reach a working D style hello world.
>

D style hello world is HUGE. writeln need half of the world to 
work to spit out anything :)

I guess the main non trivial thing SDC can compile at this point 
is its own runtime. Pain point have been the lack of "return;" 
and variosu other things in the list.

> And at some point you need to get rid of stack traces of the 
> compiler on
> compile errors.

Yes, It is also needed to stop dumping the LLVM IR on the 
standard output. But at this stage, it just make the dev much 
easier.