I missed last night's ASP.NET Community Standup on account of being shattered after a long day and falling asleep. Then I checked Twitter on the train this morning and discovered that the .NET world had, apparently, been burned to the ground by marauding Microsofties (again). It seemed to have something to do with project files, JSON vs XML, and suchlike.
Finally, lunchtime happened and I could watch the recording of the standup, and I got to understand what everyone was on about. In case you've missed it:
- In the beginning, there was
make
, and Gates did not ownmake
, so Gates said "Let there be MSBuild" and there wasMSBuild
. - And
MSBuild
used the*.*proj
files from Visual Studio as its inputs, which were formed of terrible XML, and verily it was impossible to use without a Visual Studio license.