How do people feel about putting source compiler directives inside rdmd?

[Petar]

On Monday, 2 December 2019 at 21:43:17 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Monday, 2 December 2019 at 20:04:17 UTC, aliak wrote:
>
>> Dub is painfully slow for scripting

On the contrary, I think it's great for what it offers.
I just made a quick test and it contributed to to 0.3sec slow 
down, compared to `dmd -run` of minimal D script (0.21sec vs 
0.51sec). I think that could be improved, but still it's a small 
price to given its feature set. There's no alternative tool for D 
that empowers single-file scripts to use third-party libraries 
with zero fiddling with import paths, dependency downloading, 
build order, linking and so on.

> Dub is painful for everything else so I'm not surprised to hear 
> it's painful for scripting.

Dub is probably the best thing that happened to D in the past 5 
years. Yes, it has its share of problems, but I don't think any 
of them are unfixable or by design. Instead of bashing it, I 
think this discussion could be more productive if you shared your 
criticism in a constrictive way.