How can we make it easier to experiment with the compiler?

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Monday, 24 May 2021 at 09:41:08 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Monday, 24 May 2021 at 02:25:33 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> On Sunday, 23 May 2021 at 06:12:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
>>> 5. Use directories.
>>
>> Yes!!! sooo much yes! see above.
>>
>
> You can't complain unless you've had a go at making a change to 
> Ada.
>
> [gcc] (master) $ ls gcc/c | wc -l
> 19
> [gcc] (master) $ ls gcc/cp | wc -l
> 87
> [gcc] (master) $ ls gcc/fortran | wc -l
> 99
> [gcc] (master) $ ls gcc/d/dmd | wc -l
> 114
> [gcc] (master) $ ls gcc/ada | wc -l
> 565

Eee gads!

> I do tend to agree though that we should try to respect 
> Dunbar's number when it comes to these things.  But the 
> individual file count does not map to reality.

it makes it difficult to navigate, especially so when you are 
unfamiliar with the code base.