<story><title>MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/09/03/msbuild-is-going-cross-platform-with-net-core.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>I know MSBuild gets a lot of hate but this is still great news. The end goal of having a .Net project be compile-able on Windows, Linux and Mac is going to be awesome. I&amp;#x27;m curious, when everything is finally done, what the adoption rates will be like. Will hard-core Linux users who used Java migrate when it makes sense? Will they avoid it because &amp;quot;M$&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;All good stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fiatjaf</author><text>Anyone who does not like MS because of the $ cannot at the same time like Java.</text></comment>
<story><title>MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/09/03/msbuild-is-going-cross-platform-with-net-core.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>I know MSBuild gets a lot of hate but this is still great news. The end goal of having a .Net project be compile-able on Windows, Linux and Mac is going to be awesome. I&amp;#x27;m curious, when everything is finally done, what the adoption rates will be like. Will hard-core Linux users who used Java migrate when it makes sense? Will they avoid it because &amp;quot;M$&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;All good stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swozey</author><text>It will be very nice to be able to do CI&amp;#x2F;compilation on extremely cheap and fast (to spin up) linux slaves as opposed to requiring an expensive (license, hardware) and slow (miserably slow ec2 boots) Windows servers.</text></comment>