The way it builds your software is also a declarative build system: MSBuild. It happens to be configured in XML instead of a Python-like language, and the IDE i

The way it builds your software is also a declarative build system: MSBuild. It happens to be configured in XML instead of a Python-like language, and the IDE integration is probably better than what you get from Buck or similar. Building software can be complex sometimes, and _pretending_ it's a "microoptimization" to care about that is unnecessarily diminutive.