How can we make it easier to experiment with the compiler

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 09:58:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 09:53:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/25/2021 4:22 AM, jmh530 wrote:
>>> 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...
>>
>> Meanwhile, Iain and I are putting out PRs on ImportC.
>
> Yes, 2 people run ahead while 10 equally capable people throw 
> their hands up in the air then walks off and start writing 
> their own compilers.

2 years later they were all steamrolled by C++ and Swift because 
they failed to organize and coordinate between themselves.

The sadness of Open Source is that unlike businesses they don't 
see productivitylosses. They can just ignore them and pretend 
they don't exist. Thus they fail to benefit fom the synergies 
that are available to them.