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Kasey Speakman • Edited

I has have posted elsewhere, the thing I really miss from Visual Studio is the automatic build templates. Basically create a new "Web API" (or whatever) project, and do all file changes (add/delete/rename) thru the Solution Explorer, and there's no build to setup and maintain. You can customize the build process, but I have never needed to.

Going to front-end, building is suddenly a nightmare-turned-reality of starter projects and manually editing webpack configs. And the industry seems to consider this normal. I suppose MS had the benefit of releasing only when their tooling was caught up to the new tech they were releasing (well, until dotnet core anyway).