DUB – the D build tool and package manager
There is nothing challenging about compiling simple D programs with DMD on the command line, but things can get a bit out of hand as a project grows. A complex D program will be composed of numerous modules and can be dependent on several third-party libraries. There are a number of approaches that users have taken to compile their D projects. Some use makefiles or existing tools that have some form of support for D, such as CMake or SCons, and a few have even created their own build tools from scratch. For several years, I used a custom build script written in D for most of my projects.
In the past, having so many different approaches for building D code could sometimes be a bit of an annoyance for users ...
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