dub -> meson

Andre Pany andre at s-e-a-p.de
Tue Apr 16 08:25:17 UTC 2019


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.
>
> Reasons to move forward with Meson:
>
> 0. Progressive and large community
> 1. Has clear python source code: faster to extend, easier to 
> maintain.
> 2. D+Meson already used in production: last year it is a major 
> build system for all of Mir and its commercial applications.
> 3. Meson language is super cool. It is much better than dub for 
> commercial projects, for large projects, for library 
> distribution.
> 4. Ability to compile and configure D code with other languages 
> like C/C++.
> 5. With Meson we don't need to catch up Rust, we can do better 
> than Rust with fewer resources.
>
>
> Best,
> Ilya

Don't you think we send following message with this step:
You cannot use the D Programming Language without installing 
Python. Python is able to do things, D is not able to do.


In my opinion this is a rather bad advertising):

Kind regards
Andre


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