What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?

1. NAnt2

   1 2 11 5.4 C#

   NAnt2 is a free .NET build tool, updated and enhanced from original NAnt project https://github.com/nant/nant. Easy to use even by non-programmers to automate their daily tasks.

   

   NAnt is a capable system (in some ways better than MSBuild) and it's still sort of alive in the form of NAnt2 but yes, very old school.

2. InfluxDB

   www.influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. FAKE

   2 4 1,311 8.6 F#

   FAKE - F# Make

   

   Cake and Fake are both quite popular in the OSS world.

4. NUKE

   3 30 3,426 9.0 C#

   Discontinued 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET (by nuke-build)

   

   I’d say NUKE is quite popular too. Over 1k stars :P

5. Psake

   4 5 1,577 7.0 PowerShell

   A build automation tool written in PowerShell

   

   I've used psake (powershell+make) https://github.com/psake/psake - the main thing that attracted me to this was that it wasn't an XML based system (Nant/MSbuild), and it handled task prerequisites very nicely. While some devs find powershell a bit of a pain to learn, they generally become useful very quickly, and I think it's useful to be able to do some level of powershelling anyway.

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