DUB - call to arms

[Zekereth]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 20:09:17 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 11:21:09 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I think on the ecosystem side, dub is the #1 thing that ever 
> came to D. I remember what life was before dub. First of all, 
> there was no central repository, so it was hard to find a 
> package you're interested in to begin with. Secondly, every 
> package required additional steps to download dependencies, 
> usually through a bash script. Then you had to roll a dice 
> which build tool it expects, will it be bud, dsss, maybe 
> makefiles, maybe something else? Oh, and if you were on 
> Windows, you were screwed 99% of time, because the author loves 
> bash and never tested it on non-POSIX platforms.
>
> [...]

I just want to mirror this exactly. I didn't really play with D 
much until DUB came along. Now is nearly always the language that 
I reach for when starting a new project.