Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-15 00:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/14/11 3:09 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-07-14 08:56, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> Nick,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 17:41 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> [ . . . ]
>>>> Yea, D is likely to be a little more verbose than what could be done
>>>> in Ruby
>>>> (or Python). Personally, I think that's well worth it, though. I
>>>> don't know
>>>> how many others would agree or not.
>>> [ . . . ]
>>>
>>> You might want to take a quick look at SBT -- the standard Scala build
>>> framework. It's advocates started it because Ant and Maven are XML hell
>>> and are generally problematic, and Gradle is build on Java and Groovy,
>>> and (as you might expect) Scala folk abhor all things dynamic (i.e.
>>> Groovy) and insist on static type checking. I have some doubts about
>>> the huge downloads they dump into each project hierarchy, but there is
>>> no doubt that they have made excellent use of a statically type language
>>> to create a DSL for building Scala things.
>>>
>>> If D can be used to go down this sort of road, and if it can support the
>>> build and install facilities of SCons and Waf, then it could be a
>>> winner.
>>
>> Scala have a lot of features making a DSL looking a lot better than one
>> written in D.
>
> Does it have something akin to string mixins?
>
> Andrei

I'm not very familiar with Scala but I found this: 
http://blog.darevay.com/2009/01/remedial-scala-interpreting-scala-from-scala/

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg