> Msbuild isn't too bad once you've got over the culture shock that (a) everything is XML rather than tab-delimited makefiles and (b) you've got a glossary of t

> Msbuild isn't too bad once you've got over the culture shock that (a) everything is XML rather than tab-delimited makefiles and (b) you've got a glossary of terms that maps to things you know https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbui https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbui... and (c) you get the binary log viewer https://msbuildlog.com/ https://msbuildlog.com/, which is a fantastic tool that gives you total observability of every detail of the build process. Of which there is a lot. I've only had to interact with it for C[++], but based on that, I'd do a lot to not use it for projects I work on. No-action-needed builds are orders of magnitude slower than with any other tool, the determination of what needs to be rebuilt is ... not accurate, understanding the build rules is hard, there is very little useful documentation, there are a lot of bugs.