Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
by knocte on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @09:36PM
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IMO the PR is not only disrespectful but also utterly wrong, from a technical point of view.
If Make was that awesome of a project, it would have evolved to cover the needs of most developers, however, some tools grew around it to "workaround" its limitations, and then the monster called autotools was born.
I consider MSBuild much less worse than autotools. I'm not yet a fan of any build tool to recognise that it's good, but at least I can tell that MSBuild is one that sucks the least.
If Make was that awesome of a project, it would have evolved to cover the needs of most developers, however, some tools grew around it to "workaround" its limitations, and then the monster called autotools was born.
I consider MSBuild much less worse than autotools. I'm not yet a fan of any build tool to recognise that it's good, but at least I can tell that MSBuild is one that sucks the least.