State of the Compiler

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 00:10:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> This will all take years, but we've already made good progress 
> such as the conversion of the source code to D.

You should probably turn at least some of this into a checklist 
somewhere so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. Also, it 
could be used as a source of suggestions for stuff for folks to 
work on in the compiler if they want suggestions or want guidance 
on which sorts of things that they're thinking about doing should 
be done first.

Maybe the wiki should have pages for dmd and Phobos (and possible 
druntime) with stuff like this which indicates what you'd prefer 
that folks do. They're still free to do whatever they want and 
try and get it merged, and most of the core developers already 
have a fair idea of what they want to work on (frequently more 
than they can get to in a sane time frame), but it might better 
inform which things get done first as well as server as 
suggestions for new folks who don't know what they can or should 
do to help.

- Jonathan M Davis