Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

[Tofu Ninja]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:37:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/1/2013 9:53 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Y'know, one feature I've always wanted is the equivalent of 
>> preprocessed
>> C code -- with all mixins expanded, aliases substituted with 
>> their final
>> target, templates fully expanded, all syntactic sugar lowered, 
>> with the
>> original code lines in comments, so that you can see exactly 
>> how your
>> code was translated, and whether it matches what you *think* 
>> it does.
>> This would also be invaluable for debugging, as then it will 
>> map to the
>> assembly code much better, which will help you trace where 
>> things went
>> wrong.
>
> I do this with a debug build of the compiler. Using --b will 
> give you the expression trees sent to the back end.

Why is this not a feature in the release? Seems like a very 
useful feature to have...