Idea: std.build instead of dub and make-like tools

[Piotrek via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 06:13:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I think a good balance can be drawn between providing enough 
> primitives that cover almost all conceivable use cases in a 
> build tool, and at the same time provide an "escape hatch" into 
> a full-fledged programming language for those rare but 
> inevitable cases where you need to go outside the box and do 
> what the designers didn't anticipate.

Fully agree. Do you think is it worth to have such a tool as 
std.build?

Piotrek