As a occasional contributor to dmd I usually manage to get everything working the way I want by digging through the dmd source code long enough, but sometimes bad / non-existing documentation and missing knowdelge result in suboptimal solutions or unsolved problems. I would greatly appreciate a subforum which purpose it is to discuss compiler implementation details. I know that there is dmd-internals, but it seems that this forum only gets spammed by some bot with pull-request messages.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut

On 8/24/15 1:00 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> As a occasional contributor to dmd I usually manage to get everything
> working the way I want by digging through the dmd source code long
> enough, but sometimes bad / non-existing documentation and missing
> knowdelge result in suboptimal solutions or unsolved problems. I would
> greatly appreciate a subforum which purpose it is to discuss compiler
> implementation details. I know that there is dmd-internals, but it seems
> that this forum only gets spammed by some bot with pull-request messages.

Questions asked there do get answered. Most of the developers access it via a mailing list, and it's pretty easy to filter out the github messages from the real stuff.

-Steve

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 17:00:31 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> As a occasional contributor to dmd I usually manage to get everything working the way I want by digging through the dmd source code long enough, but sometimes bad / non-existing documentation and missing knowdelge result in suboptimal solutions or unsolved problems. I would greatly appreciate a subforum which purpose it is to discuss compiler implementation details. I know that there is dmd-internals, but it seems that this forum only gets spammed by some bot with pull-request messages.

I'm in the same boat.  The Github events have a high noise-to-information ratio, and given that Github already has a way to subscribe to a repository's events, they seem redundant.

Mike