How do I contribute error messages?

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I would love to help w/ making more helpful error messages for some common mistakes (though I have been blown away by the helpfulness of the compiler errors :slight_smile: ).

Could someone point me in the right direction for contributing?

An example of an error I'd like to improve:

let a = 0;
let b = 1.1;
let c = a + b;

<anon>:25:13: 25:18 error: the trait `core::ops::Add<_>` is not implemented for the type `_` [E0277]
<anon>:25     let c = a + b;

From what I've seen, some errors are more helpful than others (suggesting fixes). Is there an easy way to add more special cases?

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Issue 24,407 is the main metabug for adding error explanations to error messages. That one in particular is probably this bug though the nice fix is probably here.