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Re: gcc : c++11 : full support : eta?
> Perhaps it'd be worthwhile to consider making the compiler easier to
> understand, maybe by devoting a lot of effort into the internals
> documentation. There's a lot of knowledge wrapped up in people that
> could disappear with one bus factor.
That is definitely a worthwhile goal, and one that's had mixed success
in the past, but:
- compilers are extremely complex programs and there's a limit to how
much even the best-written internals documentation can explain
- even fewer people are interested and competant to write such documentation
as there are to do the necessary development work