Which language futures make D overcompicated?

[rikki cattermole]

On 13/02/2018 11:11 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 10:45 +0000, aberba via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
> […]
>> I wish complaints about Dub would include exactly what was
>> impossible with it. There's no reason to throw dub away and start
>> something new. If one can run cmake before build in dub,  then a
>> lot is possible. Those edge cases can be ironed out.
> 
> I think there have been many actual complaints made in detail in this
> thread.
> 
> There is always a reason to replace, because you can build on what has
> gone before and do better. CMake is part of the problem.
> 
>> Dub fulfills all my use cases so I don't complain. Those here
>> with not much issue with dub will also not complain. And that
>> does not make it a minority opinion without stats to prove dub
>> usage.
> 
> No problem, and I guess you'll be happy to carry on using Dub after
> something new and better appears. In the case of Maven → Gradle, many
> people still use Maven even though it is provably inferior to Gradle
> simply because they cannot be bothered to change.
> 
>> At point, dub will likely remain the default package management
>> tool. The build functionality can be improved for those who deal
>> with such stuff often. Manpower is what remains.
> […]
> 
> Why should Dub remain the one true way? Just because it was the first
> doesn't mean it is the best.

It wasn't the first and it was the best in over a 10 year period.