reggae v0.10.0 - The meta build system just got better

[Andrey Zherikov]

On Thursday, 7 September 2023 at 17:34:48 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/reggae
>
> For those who don't know, reggae is a meta-build system for and 
> in D. It's like CMake, if you replace their terrible language 
> with D*. Like CMake, it can output make and ninja files. Unlike 
> CMake, it can also output tup files and has its own binary 
> generator in case the dependency on one of those programs is 
> undesired. Also unlike CMake, it supports dub projects 
> out-of-the-box by using dub as a library.

Out of curiosity, why do we need one more build tool?

TBH I had the same thought - we should have "good" build tool for 
D that has D as a language. Since I have some experience with 
CMake and agree with a lot of people that it have horrible 
language, I thought it would be beneficial. But then I looked 
round and realized that it will be like this:
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png)
So I dropped that idea and think that investing into existing 
build tool to support D will be much more efficient.
Have you looked as Meson, for example - it even has a [section 
about D](https://mesonbuild.com/D.html)?