[Media] I built a tool that explains compiler errors to beginners in any language

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[Media] I built a tool that explains compiler errors to beginners in any language

Hey there! So I was thinking of new tools to help me while building stuff and I discovered that sometimes errors from python or c/c++ are hard to understand. So I built a tool to solve just that, it explains errors and even displays potential fixes. There is a catch though, it uses a database of yaml files to get support for each error and currently it has about 122 or something errors supported across 4 languages: python,c/cpp,rust (I know that there is rustc —explain) and go. So i would love to get some help adding more error files to the db for a broader coverage.

And i realised it had potential to become a tool that explains errors about all kinds of things like "make" errors or "git" errors and etc. I would love your thoughts on this!