It's a good point, and i think now is fixed. Really few people just call the compiler directly. before there was the msbuild but was ugly from command line:

It's a good point, and i think now is fixed. Really few people just call the compiler directly. before there was the msbuild but was ugly from command line: - msbuild /t:Build /p:Configuration=Release That's why the created the .net core sdk (http://github.com/dotnet/cli http://github.com/dotnet/cli). it's always the compiler all the way down. but you can do - `dotnet new -t console` for template - `dotnet build -c Release` to compile - `dotnet run` to build+run - `dotnet pack` to build+ create a package - `dotnet publish -r osx` to build+create standalone version - `dotnet test` to build+run tests