Lessons from the Impl Period

[nikomatsakis]

I've been reading the thread with interest, but have been traveling so haven't had to write up much thoughts yet. Just wanted to add a link to this other thread that I just opened, which is specific to documenting the compiler:

"So you want to hack on the Rust compiler?", a plan for a book

In my previous post, I talked about the idea of drafting a “Rust Compiler Book”. I wanted to talk about how we might go about this. I think there are a few interesting questions to discuss: Where to host the book? How to describe and delegate the work? Where to host the book Currently, we have documentation scattered about in various places: The Forge, the source for which lives in this github repo markdown files in the codebase itself, typically (but not always) named README.md: for exa…