[tailspin2019]

I agree with you on MsBuild being powerful.

I often really hate certain technologies like MsBuild and use them begrudgingly for years, fighting with the tooling, right up until I decide once and for all to give it enough of my attention to properly learn, and then realise how powerful and useful it actually is!

I went through the same thing with webpack too.

MsBuild is far from perfect though. I often think about trying to find some sort of simple universal build system that I can use across all my projects regardless of the tech stack.

I’ve never really dug much into `make`… Maybe something like that is what I’m yearning for.

[shortrounddev2]

I find this experience a lot with a lot of Microsoft technologies. People bemoan powershell, NT, DirectX, even C# itself, and other Windows APIs but when you get to really learn them you start to miss them on Linux. I sometimes see a meme from beginner programmers lamenting how the world would be better if Windows was POSIX compliant but once you've learned a bit about some of the Windows API calls, POSIX feels absolutely ancient. Some stuff is really dated like Win32 windowing stuff

[NekkoDroid]

> I often really hate certain technologies like MsBuild and use them begrudgingly for years, fighting with the tooling, right up until I decide once and for all to give it enough of my attention to properly learn, and then realise how powerful and useful it actually is!

I had a similar expreience with Cmake. Note, I still hate the DSL but what it can do and what you nowadays actually need to do (or how you organize it) if you are writing a new project can be relatively clean and easy to follow.

Not to say its easy to get to that point, but I don't think anyone really would say that.