FlubuCore VS NUKE

Re moby dick makefiles, you could take a look at https://nuke.build .. I’m maintaining that project

answered here: https://github.com/nuke-build/nuke/issues/861

BUT, now I had the opportunity to use Nuke.Build for my build system and I am obsessed heavily with it that I love it so much.

Previously we have used MSBuild for this, however as this is XML based, it's really quite cumbersome and takes a lot of trial and error to get things working. More recently we've started to use an excellent tool called NUKE Build which is a C# based build automation tool that lets use write our build scripts in C#, benefiting from strongly typed variables and the ability to use any existing C# library for custom build requirements.

I use Gitversion with Nuke and it works seamlessly both locally as well as in a CI/CD environment (I use Azure DevOps). This is what my Compile and Pack targets for Nuke looks like

It was at that point I started searching for an alternative. I quickly ran into another build automation system that I’d heard of before, but never really used: NUKE. Dennis Doomen (also known as ‘the guy who wrote FluentAssertions’) had written a very nice article outlining why he thought it was a great replacement. He outlines more reasons, but NUKE specifically addresses all of the issues I was having with Cake.

What I would really like to see is a CI system that lets me write a script in a language of my choice instead of defining a pipeline config file. That way I can run the pipeline locally, put breakpoints in, etc.

Nuke [1] gets close but there are still a lot of tasks that don't have C# bindings, such as publishing build artifacts and uploading test results.

While I'm dreaming about my perfect CI, I'd also like the ability to download benchmark results from previous commits so that I can generate trend graphs and publish them in the build results.

To do this right the CI system would have to have an API using REST, GraphQL, gRPC or some such API format that generates clients in many languages. That way they don't have to maintain bindings in every language.

[1] https://nuke.build/

We've released a new version of NUKE – a build automation system that aims for native integration with all kinds of developer tools. I wrote a short list of features that could be interesting for existing users and everyone else working in build automation.

There are several automation systems that use C#! The ones I know are BullsEye, Cake Frosting, FlubuCore and Nuke. The latter is my own project.