dub -> meson

[Atila Neves]

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.

Why would we need a new registry? Even if we did, how would we 
convince the existing users that switching would be in their best 
interests?

>
> Reasons to move forward with Meson:
>
> 0. Progressive and large community
> 1. Has clear python source code: faster to extend, easier to 
> maintain.

This wouldn't be too important since said extension should really 
only be done once.

> 2. D+Meson already used in production: last year it is a major 
> build system for all of Mir and its commercial applications.

My usage of meson with D revealed how bad its dub integration was.

> 3. Meson language is super cool. It is much better than dub for 
> commercial projects, for large projects, for library 
> distribution.

Anything is better than dub as a build system, including raw make.

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

AFAIK, reggae, CMake and Premake can all do this as well.

> 5. With Meson we don't need to catch up Rust, we can do better 
> than Rust with fewer resources.

I don't know what this means. They seem to be doing fine with 
cargo.