[AlexC04]

No, dotnet CLI is coming along for sure.

I was watching the community stand-up on Tuesday where Scott Hanselman and Damien Edwards discussed the reasoning in a little more detail.

They were pretty clear that they wanted to make sure they adapted and kept all the things they liked about project.json

And then rattled off a list.

I'm sure the single-file for multiple frameworks would be on the list of things they want to keep.

The shift to CSPROJ for them actually sounded (relatively) simple.

The current project.json becomes a PropertyGroup and they put everything inside that.

So they switch the mustaches for triangle brackets, but they did mention wanting to keep it "light weight"

I also know that Damien said something to the effect of "we loved project.json probably MORE than many members of the community, but the choice had to be made"