[Semi-OT] On the topic of build tools

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 13 August 2021 at 19:30:29 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:

> This was kind of what my hackish experiment was going for. 
> You'd define things in LUA that manually called 
> "isOutOfDate(file, {metadata})" and "update(file, {metadata})", 
> and then the SDL half was just a list of function calls (quite 
> literally since the SDL was translated into LUA).
>

Premake uses Lua:

https://premake.github.io/

Manu got D support into it quite a while back. Not sure where it 
stands now.