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

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Monday, 24 May 2021 at 02:56:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> The #1 problem isn't directories, it's "every module imports 
> every other module" that leaves one with nowhere to start.
>

> I regularly fend off attempts to have dmd/root import files 
> from dmd, and dmd/backend import files from dmd. I recently had 
> to talk someone out of having dmd/backend import files from 
> dmd/root.
>

Wow - that's pretty fundamental. How does such code get in? I 
assume you own the DMD code - all changes should be vetted and 
approved by you?

Btw one less from Linux maintenance is that the the owners should 
spend all their time reviewing code - not writing code!