Well, it's been a total failure

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Yes. Please, let's not waste our time rewriting shell two-liners as 
> specialized programs.

It's not always a waste of time. For example, I stopped using lib and ar to 
generate libraries and instead built it into dmd. The result is quite pleasing, 
it's very very fast to build libraries and does not litter one's directories 
with object files.