Can signatures be made simpler and error messages be made better?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 12 June 2021 at 12:10:13 UTC, sighoya wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 June 2021 at 11:29:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> Start thinking of D-tooling as a set of tools, not just DMD. 
>> So you have DMD + verifier + IDE-server + IDE of you own 
>> choice.
>
> This is a major undertaking for DMD, why not developing a 
> separate IDE compile just as it is the case for Java, it is 
> slower, fur sure, but it literally enables developing code 
> faster.

Hahaha, maintaining an evergrowing compiler is A MUCH larger 
undertaking.

> I think this is true regarding GC as the evil of efficiency :).

Hi, I read an original paper for Simulas GC as part of a compiler 
course. It didn't differ much from D's GC.

We are talking 1960/1970s.