tooling quality and some random rant

[gölgeliyele]

Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
 
> golgeliyele wrote:
>> I don't think C++ and gcc set a good bar here.
> 
> Short of writing our own linker, we're a bit stuck with what ld does.
> 

I am not necessarily questioning the use of ld (or a different linker on 
a different platform). What intrigues me is: Is it possible to avoid 
leaking ld errors to the end user. For instance, with the compilation 
model of feeding all the .d files to dmd, we should be able to check if 
main() is missing or not, before going to the linker. I don't think 
supporting multiple compilation models is a good thing. I really hope 
you guys can visit this issue sometime soon.