dub -> meson

[Julian]

On Tuesday, 16 April 2019 at 01:45:26 UTC, 9il wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 'DUB - call to arms' post by Seb
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/unimbbqxosxcmjdhtzch@forum.dlang.org
>
> Hope we will move other direction and extend Meson build system 
> with better D support and make a new Dlang registry.

Is it just a build system? Isn't a package manager also needed?
Why a *new* registry?

> Reasons to move forward with Meson:
>
> 1. Has clear python source code: faster to extend, easier to 
> maintain.

Oh. Well it was certainly a mistake to try use D for something
like dub. I've thought of D as a kind of competitor to Python
but I sure don't want slow to extend, hard to maintain code.

> 4. Ability to compile and configure D code with other languages 
> like C/C++.

That's a surprising oversight. Was it intentional?