On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 at 18:28:00 UTC, qznc wrote:
Rust changed their error message format:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-come.html
Inspiration for D?
Yes, please. Hard to understand/confusing error messages were
ranked among the three top things that people bother with D (the
other things is still the license of DMD) in this recent slant
[1].
small rant (from current discussions at Phobos): we should also
remove all the silent assert(0) in Phobos that come without any
error message, but the segfault.
That's a very cheap way to improve the UX.
[1]
https://www.slant.co/topics/5984/~productivity-enhancing-well-designed-and-concise-rather-than-just-popular-or-time-tested-programming-la
