Which language futures make D overcompicated?

[John Gabriele]

On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:40:25 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:13:08 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 16:10 +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> 
>> […]
>>> Dub is not dead, it just has limited resources.
>>
>> So , if the D community want Dub to work as a build system as 
>> well as a package manager, extend the resources by corralling 
>> the grumblers and support them into fixing code and creating 
>> pull requests.
>
>
> I already but my limited resources into real and _merged_ pull 
> requests for actual bugs at dlang/dub
> Please if you have ideas to motivate the grumblers to do so as 
> well, act!

Would it make sense to split out dub's build functionality from 
its package management? Separate sharp tools for separate jobs.

I've only heard of Atila's reggae today. Is reggae commonly used 
among D users? Are there any show stoppers to using it in place 
of dub for building dub-managed projects?