I used to work at a mostly-Microsoft shop and I cannot fathom why anyone would want to deal with MSBuild for other platforms. There are so many better alternatives. And as bad as MSBuild is for building .NET stuff, at least it's the right tool for that job. Trying to shoehorn it into some other stack entirely, which you know is just going to cause even more pain? No. Just no.
What's even worse is that I recently jumped into asp.net 5 and tripped over three build systems and a pile of cack just trying to get it off the ground. Now msbuild as well!?!
Also its not even the right tool to build .net stuff. Add the shoddy dependency resolution steps plus the shitty performance of NTFS on lots of small files (MFT contention) we have to wait 8 minutes for a build. I wrote my own system in powershell and we're down to two minutes. Also, powershell sucks awfully too but that's another story.
Frustratingly I've played around with golang on and off for around two years now. I've not written anything significant in it yet (lack of opportunity more than anything else). You know what's cool about it?
I mastered the entire build system in about an hour and its the same on all platforms and it just works and works quickly.
MS: go look there for some inspiration. Building stuff for the CLR is horrible.
I doubt that anyone would choose it for other stacks, but this means that you don't need a separate build system for building your existing .NET project on non-Windows.
The thrill of undocumented property sheets!
The rush of accidentally getting a build to work while using a genetic algorithm to try every possible combination of configuration settings!
CydeWeys|10 years ago
cptnbob|10 years ago
Also its not even the right tool to build .net stuff. Add the shoddy dependency resolution steps plus the shitty performance of NTFS on lots of small files (MFT contention) we have to wait 8 minutes for a build. I wrote my own system in powershell and we're down to two minutes. Also, powershell sucks awfully too but that's another story.
Frustratingly I've played around with golang on and off for around two years now. I've not written anything significant in it yet (lack of opportunity more than anything else). You know what's cool about it?
I mastered the entire build system in about an hour and its the same on all platforms and it just works and works quickly.
MS: go look there for some inspiration. Building stuff for the CLR is horrible.
plorkyeran|10 years ago
serve_yay|10 years ago
jahnu|10 years ago
What's not to love!?