Microsoft Open-Sources MSBuild Engine

[DanLamb]

Gradle is an arguably better rival build system that has been open source and 100% multi-platform and Linux friendly since day one.

It runs on the JVM, allows you to write mostly declarative builds in the Groovy langugage.

In addition to JVM, it fully supports .NET builds, C++ builds, and other platforms.

The new official Android SDK is heavily built around Gradle.

Microsoft open sourcing their older legacy tools is nice, I guess. But there are better products that are more established.

[Luke_Wolf]

Gradle is an arguably better rival build system that has been open source and 100% multi-platform and Linux friendly since day one.

It runs on the JVM, allows you to write mostly declarative builds in the Groovy langugage.

In addition to JVM, it fully supports .NET builds, C++ builds, and other platforms.

The new official Android SDK is heavily built around Gradle.

Microsoft open sourcing their older legacy tools is nice, I guess. But there are better products that are more established.

Their releasing MSBuild has basically nothing to do with creating/releasing a build system for others to use. It's all about making it easier for Microsoft to handle .NET Core as an opensource project.