Better error messages - from reddit

Jon Degenhardt jond at noreply.com
Mon Mar 11 23:41:13 UTC 2019


On Monday, 4 March 2019 at 14:50:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> One of the reddit comments posted this link:
>
> https://elm-lang.org/blog/compiler-errors-for-humans
>
> Wow, those error messages are MUCH better than D has. Want my 
> opinion on the best thing D should change for productivity? 
> Completely overhaul the error messages.

Another relevant blog post, this one about error message 
improvements in GCC 9: 
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/03/08/usability-improvements-in-gcc-9/.

Not in the same league as what is described for Elm, but there 
may be useful ideas.



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