Published : Mar 29, 2017
NOT ON THE CURRENT EDITION
This blip is not on the current edition of the Radar. If it was on one of the last few editions, it is likely that it is still relevant. If the blip is older, it might no longer be relevant and our assessment might be different today. Unfortunately, we simply don't have the bandwidth to continuously review blips from previous editions of the Radar.
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Mar 2017
Trial
Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
MSBuild has been the primary build system in the .NET ecosystem since its introduction in 2005; however, it suffers from many of the same weaknesses we've previously called out in Maven. The .NET community has started to develop alternatives to MSBuild which are easier to maintain and more flexible, and evolve more fluidly as a project grows. Two of these alternatives are Cake and Fake. Cake uses a DSL built in C#, while Fake uses F#. Each has seen significant growth over the last year and has proven to be a viable alternative to MSBuild for orchestrating common build tasks in .NET projects.
