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

[Walter Bright]

On 5/24/2021 2:44 AM, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
> They are not simple for new volunteers to dmd.

You're right, they are not. They're optimized for the people who spend thousands 
of hours working on it.

This inevitably happens with every profession, every discipline, and every 
project. A jargon specific to it grows up around it, for the convenience of the 
people who work on it every day. If the jargon is consistent and reasonably 
logical, it can be a great aid to understanding once one gets familiar with it.

Unfortunately, I have failed at my original design goal of making DMD a simple 
compiler. Reshuffling files around and renaming things will not help. What will 
help is better encapsulation - unfortunately, that is hard to do.

There are some reasonably well-encapsulated parts. The lexer, the parser, and 
the files in the root package. To understand the compiler, I'd start there.