[andygocke]

.NET 8 will support macOS, and yeah I think your approach of basically re-implementing much of the SDK logic in bazel is probably your best bet for a reliable experience.

At the same time, it's obvious that that's a considerable chunk of work.

Also, IDEs like VS and VS Code are reliant on MSBuild APIs to construct a semantic understanding of the projects, so without MSBuild files, they won't properly function.

This is an unfortunate problem, which I don't have a simple solution for.