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by larsberg 4434 days ago
My guess would be that it's an automated build / deploy system that required some addon installed to run, so they had to run `devenv /build` instead of using msbuild. Then they saw this behavior on one of their build machines when something wasn't installed correctly and the process just terminated, after 71 retries...

Source: I was on the visual studio environment team a decade ago, and Rube Goldberg himself could not design a build process that would surprise me, at this point.
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mnichloo 4434 days ago
That makes sense... I was imagining that there was some build process that froze VS 99% of the time and some poor developer was sitting at his desk silently crying into his coffee trying over and over to get his project to build so that he can go home for the weekend.
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raverbashing 4434 days ago
One of my personal corollaries: all build systems suck

Some suck more, some less

And most of the time it's overcomplicated.

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achamayou 4433 days ago
No one ever wants to build, all a developer really wants is a type checker.
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