Idea for a new tool

Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 14 08:52:02 PDT 2016


On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 13:13:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5051 -- Andrei

I have tons of stuff I would like to help out fixing in DMD, 
including this.

IMO, the large obstacle against making these happen isn't the 
technical challenge but lack of documentation and forum support 
when working on these issues. If each kernel developer set aside 
just 10 minutes each day in the forums giving hints on where to 
start digging in DMD to help out implementing all the things 
people want in D, we would attract more developers who can help 
out improved diagnostics, fixing bugs, IDE support like this. 
Soon those time investments will feedback to all D developers in 
improved productivity and stability. By some called "the law of 
accelerating returns".

I have a personal wishlist for improvements in the D compiler and 
some ideas on how to implement them. Is there a public common 
place where I can append these? Then we could link DMD 
documentation from the issues of that list.

In other words:

Ask not what D can do you, but instead
Ask what you can do for D!

Can we please make this happen?


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