A brief survey of build tools, focused on D

[Manu]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:30 AM Neia Neutuladh via
Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> I wrote a post about language-agnostic (or, more accurately, cross-
> language) build tools, primarily using D as an example and Dub as a
> benchmark.
>
> Spoiler: dub wins in speed, simplicity, dependency management, and
> actually working without modifying the tool's source code.
>
> https://blog.ikeran.org/?p=339

Why isn't premake in the list? It's the only buildtool that works
reasonably well with IDE's, and it's had D well supported for almost
6-7 years.
It also doesn't depend on a horrible runtime language distro.