Which tools do you miss in D?

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 07:47:27 PST 2014


> dub doesn't address my needs at all, but I've put crap loads of 
> time/energy
> into the D extension for premake, which works well (
> https://bitbucket.org/premakeext), although for some reason has 
> never
> really gotten any attention from the D community :(

Never heard of the extension until now.

>
> It generates cross-language build scripts (ie, C/C++ and D code 
> all
> together in the same project) for make and many popular IDE's.
> I use it for large scale projects that involve C/C++ engine 
> library, D
> front end code, and other ancillary libraries bolted on the 
> side.

That's cool, and I might make use of this when mixing D and 
C/C++. What dub does do really well is just making any source 
package available. I wish I had that plus the full features of a 
build system like CMake all under one roof.

Atila



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