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by Locke1689 3946 days ago
Roslyn needs cross-platform MSBuild to build itself for every platform (without Mono). Same with corefx.

So even if you're currently using or thinking about using .NET xplat and don't have any plans to use MSBuild, this move is necessary for us working on .NET to get xplat builds working.