I like dlang but i don't like dub
Tobias Pankrath
tobias at pankrath.net
Fri Mar 18 08:43:17 UTC 2022
On Friday, 18 March 2022 at 04:13:36 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:
> Dlang includes some good ideas.
> But dub pulls in so much stuff. Too much for me.
> I like things which are clean,lean,little,small.
> But when i use dub it links with so many libraries.
> Are they really needed ?
> And how do you compare to pythons pip.
> Feel free to elaborate.
Dub is fantastic at some places, e.g. if you need to just execute
something from code.dlang.org via `dub run`, or single file
packages (https://dub.pm/advanced_usage) are great to write small
cmdline utilities with dependencies.
I don't like it as a build system and it is notoriously hard to
integrate into existing build systems. You can look at meson
(which had some D related bug fixes recently) or reggae for that.
Or just do `dmd -i` as long as compile times are low enough.
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