[tialaramex]

There has been more interest from modern programming languages and modern compiler developers in good diagnostics in two ways: 1. The earlier you report the problem, the cheaper the fix and 2. The better the diagnostic the more likely the programmer's fix is appropriate to the actual problem they had.

I agree this is great news. I actually had to write MS SQL for the first time last week and it was disappointing but sadly expected to have it respond to a common but not technically-standard SQL syntax I'm used to with "Syntax error" as though somehow that's helpful. Such poor errors meant I spent more time reading the documentation than writing queries even though I've years of experience across several other SQL dialects.