Incomprehensible compiler errors

[Stuart]

On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 10:59:49 UTC, Don Clugston wrote:
>
> Yeah, we still have *miles* to go on the toolchain. As a 
> community we've been putting most of our effort into getting 
> the compiler stable, and to a lesser extent working on the the 
> standard library. Most of the other things are one-man shows.
> The Eclipse plugin and DFL have both been abandoned for years.
> Mono-D and VisualD are progressing quite well but again they 
> are only one-man shows.
>
> We need more people.

Agreed. I don't know if I can help much - I'm not an expert on 
low-level things like compilers and such, and I do my best work 
in .NET; but there may be something I can do. Maybe write a 
better IDE, with intellisense, I dunno. It'd have to be .NET 
based.

Or maybe I could work with you guys on devising a new DFL. I've 
had loads of experience with the .NET standard library for GUIs 
(System.Windows.Forms). I don't have much experience in the D 
language, but if it was a joint effort, that wouldn't matter so 
much. What does everyone think? (Except Jakob, who thinks I'm 
ignorant)