Doesn't DMD as a library already exist without an external dub project?

[Andrew Edwards]

On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 12:48:30 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 11:55:17 UTC, Andrew Edwards 
> wrote:
>> My naïveté often gets the best of me, so if I seem to be 
>> jumping off the deep end, please pull me back before I hurt 
>> myself.
>>
>> [...]
>
> As far as I remember, the current version schema of dmd 
> (2.0xx.x) isn't semver compatible but that will be solved soon 
> with dmd 2.100.0.
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

It's been a running complaint in the forum for over a decade now. 
I wasn't aware there were efforts underway to resolve the issue, 
though. Thanks for pointing that out. Just curious, how does 
semver (non-)compatibility prevent/aid in using the compiler as a 
library?

Thanks,
Andrew