DUB - call to arms

[Andre Pany]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 11:27:18 UTC, Jacob Shtokolov wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 10:53:17 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The problem
>> -----------
>
> Hey guys, maybe this is an offtopic (which could sound 
> heretical btw), but didn't you ever think about writing a 
> package manager using some scripting languages like Python or 
> JavaScript?
>
> The package manager is an infrastructure thing, so it not so 
> critical as the rest of other tools.
>
> Maybe, a consideration of this idea would help to attract more 
> people from the outside of the community, because there is a 
> feeling that we're pretty much locked on the community itself.

In addition to the Dub executable, you can also use Dub as 
Library in your D coding. This will not longer be possible, or 
only   with a lot more effort.

Several developers have put a lot of effort to make DMD 
independent from the Microsoft build tools / visual studio.
If we now add a new dependency to Python or NPM, that would be 
really strange)

Kind regards
Andre