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

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 01:38:59 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 01:25:23 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
> wrote:
>>
>> ...Illusions of Progress provide no actual utility, hence 
>> illusions.
>> Packaging DMD otoh, provides _lots_ of utility: exploration 
>> and navigation is greatly eased, moreso for people who are 
>> less familiar with the codebase.
>
> For what it's worth, I've found that exploration and navigation 
> of DMD code becomes much more manageable with an editor that 
> supports "goto definition"--ideally with history, so you can 
> jump backwards too.
>
> I use vim's built-in ctags support for this, but I imagine most 
> popular code editors can be configured to do something similar.

I dont know if it is funny or sad that a thread about enabeling 
more compiler experiments ends with a note on adding basic IDE 
features to arcane editors...