How can we make it easier to experiment with the compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 11:22:24 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> I don't know...I mean it's a start...

Many functions have two-liners documentation already, but it is 
kinda like a forest. You see lots of individual trees, but the 
shape of the forest is hard to grasp. More documentation on 
individual functions won't enable anything. Just like stapling 
"this is spruce", "this is birch" to individual trees does not 
help much.

> I feel like this forum has ADHD sometimes. A week ago it was 
> all up in arms about ImportC, now it's fcused on this, two 
> weeks from now this will be forgotten and on to something 
> else...

You have to build consensus somehow.

Most of the new cool features other languages get is bette done 
using a dedicated high level IR. There is currently no easy way 
to experiment with that for D (short of writing your own backend).

I think that is a road block.