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by lazulicurio 1633 days ago
> Try programming for Xamarin, UWP, or anything involving multitargeting.

The complaints in the original article fell rather flat to me, but this is one area where it's absolutely fair to criticize VS. More generally, the reason that build tooling in the .net sphere is such a mess is because of historical baggage from VS.

With that said, if you're coloring within the lines[1], VS is very powerful and productive.

[1] To an extent. There definitely are use cases that are "supported" only in name.

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> More generally, the reason that build tooling in the .net sphere is such a mess is because of historical baggage from VS.

This is part of why the .NET hot reload fiasco was such a big deal to me; it felt like doubling down on one of .NET's biggest weaknesses.