> That being said, releases like this are pretty frustrating because they seem to reflect a focusing on tiny bits of sugar (can we even call them that?) instead

> That being said, releases like this are pretty frustrating because they seem to reflect a focusing on tiny bits of sugar (can we even call them that?) instead of features that have a much more positive influence experience. Besides "better error messages" how do any of these things improve the development experience? This article is about changes to the language. The bulk of the effort in this release went into improving the _compiler_: better error messages, faster compile times, smaller code size, and fixing bugs.