How do people feel about putting source compiler directives inside rdmd?

[aliak]

On Monday, 2 December 2019 at 19:32:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Monday, 2 December 2019 at 18:48:41 UTC, aliak wrote:
>> Like these in rund? 
>> https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund#source-compiler-directives
>>
>> Is that something that dlang would be open to for rdmd?
>>
>> Cheers
>> - Ali
>
> What is the advantage relative to the added complexity? Can't 
> you use Dub or a Makefile if that's what you want? I'm 
> disagreeing, I just don't know the use case.

Dub is painfully slow for scripting, and if you require a 
makefile whenever someone wants to write a script then python it 
is.

The usecase is being able to have your scripts use the compiler 
flags you want (e.g. dip1000 and optimize, or whatever else).