Two major problems with dub

evilrat evilrat666 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 16:07:58 UTC 2021


On Sunday, 1 August 2021 at 15:38:32 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:
> 2. Let's say you need bindings to postgresql library and you 
> will see dub pulling in numerous of libraries, which have 
> nothing at all to do with postgresql.
> More like a framework stuff. This creates unneeded complexity, 
> bloatware, dependency hell, maintainability, in my humble 
> opinion. Dub should do one thing and do it good.
> Feel free to elaborate.

Wait, you don't use isOdd package in your frontend? No way...

(also for that "bloat" part, this is where the linker comes in 
and strips it all, unless you are talking about accidentally 
added dependencies on "just in case" basis which is a sign of 
design issues)


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