Which language futures make D overcompicated?

[rikki cattermole]

On 11/02/2018 10:54 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 17:20 -0500, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
> […]
>> Been there, done that, put enormous work into it, a TON of arguing
>> to
>> little avail, found the code architecture difficult to work with,
>> and
>> ultimately my merged PRs barely made a dent at solving my issues.
>> Gave
>> up. I'm convinced the problems with dub are fundamental and often
>> philosophical.
> 
> The vocal minority of the moment is very anti-Dub as build tool, hence
> Atila wrote Reggae, and may put renewed effort into D support for
> SCons, CMake, and Meson.
> 
> To have the debate now is different to having the debate then. Then
> there was no data, just effort that created Dub, Dub was the only
> constructive activity at the time.

It wasn't.
I was working on my own build system with dependency management when dub 
was created. I stopped after dub was first released because it meet my 
every need for a D build manager.