Jai compiles 80,000 lines of code in under a second

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 23:13:38 UTC, aliak wrote:
> you can create your build recipe inside the program

But this is not a particularly good idea and is even against the 
times.

Everyone is moving from powerful languages like makefiles to 
_less_ powerful languages (like dub.json) to describe how 
programs are built. Why is that so?

The reasons we have dpldocs.info, dub test, dub build etc. are 
entirely because we use a _restricted_ DSL to build D programs. 
If we were all doing makefiles, it's easy to see there would be 
no common structure hence no automated doc generation, testing 
etc. Like a C project!

There is a shift from imperative to declarative for build recipes 
in all other modern languages and Jai has made (yet another) 
wrong choice.