On Friday, 18 March 2022 at 04:13:36 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:
Dlang includes some good ideas. But dub pulls in so much stuff. Too much for me. I like things which are clean,lean,little,small. But when i use dub it links with so many libraries. Are they really needed ? And how do you compare to pythons pip. Feel free to elaborate.
Dub is fantastic at some places, e.g. if you need to just execute something from code.dlang.org via `dub run`, or single file packages (https://dub.pm/advanced_usage) are great to write small cmdline utilities with dependencies.
I don't like it as a build system and it is notoriously hard to integrate into existing build systems. You can look at meson (which had some D related bug fixes recently) or reggae for that. Or just do `dmd -i` as long as compile times are low enough.
