dub: JSON, SDL, YAML, TOML, what color should we paint it ?

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 16:10:19 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> module buildfile;

This isn't what I'm talking about at all.

I don't want to run D to build, I want to *introspect* D for 
build info. You can read module names, dependencies (including 
platform-specific and configuration-specific ones) right out of D 
code. Author, description, license, etc., have standard ddoc 
sections in D code.

Other things dub.json define like flags could easily be a UDA on 
the module declaration and be pulled out pretty easily by 
compilers or even relatively basic parsers.

Even subconfigurations can... kinda be pulled out of D code by 
looking for version blocks though that's probably another thing 
I'd put on a UDA.