On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Piotrek via Digitalmars-d < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 18:36:48 UTC, Mark Isaacson wrote: > >> From experience, it turns out that having a restricted language to >> specify your builds/dependencies is a very good thing. You really don't >> really want a turning complete language for this; it just makes it harder >> to reason about. >> > > I agree that everybody has different experience. My, for example, is > opposite. > > 1. Make and derivatives are unintuitive to use and lead to unmaintained > mess. > 2. Simple and descriptive formats like JSON means neverending demand for > extension and alternatives (dub situation). eg, comments (not supported in dub JSON format since it's not standard JSON) > > > Piotrek > >
