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

[Walter Bright]

On 5/24/2021 3:47 AM, Johan Engelen wrote:
> The main stumbling block is already mentioned: ownership. If you want 
> contributors, you have to give up some ownership and be willing to make 
> compromises between your own and the new contributors' viewpoints. The lack of 
> willingness to give up ownership is what keeps me out (and I suspect, 
> indirectly, others too). The frontend source code is not nice, but I'm not drawn 
> to fix it at all (even if paid for) because I am not ashamed by it as I would be 
> if I would have some shared 'ownership' of it.

Good points, but part of the reason the front end code is what it is is because 
of many contributors with diverse viewpoints on what good code should look like. 
How should we reconcile that?