Visual studio is your build system. What if I want to use, develop, or depend on a project that wasn't built with visual studios preferences in mind? I mean I

Visual studio is your build system. What if I want to use, develop, or depend on a project that wasn't built with visual studios preferences in mind? I mean I don't know how to use visual studio to build software, but I get along fine, so why should we optimize for your preferred interface and not another one that might be better?