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  • Well, is MSBuild has everything you need ? JS minificaiton ? HTML minification ? Livereload server ? you may consider some of them are not needed for you it's up to you. The basic thing is that if you don't need to move on and have something working with technologies you master, don't move. Commented Dec 29, 2016 at 21:14
  • @Walfrat I don't even know if MSBuild does have all of those tasks (I know some of them do exist), but they could be created. My point is that folks are moving to Grunt because it processes "JavaScript files" but MSBuild can do that too with no apparent problems. Why have a separate task runner? Commented Dec 29, 2016 at 21:21
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    @julealgon don't forget, there are lot of folks that just move to new things because of the "hype". If MSBuild is enough for you and work, don't change it. If you search on workplace.SE you can find a lot of questions about "I'm coming from school and I want to change all the technos to get the flashy new one and seniors don't want" Commented Dec 29, 2016 at 21:38
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    Comparing Grunt to MSBuild is like comparing Java to MS Visual C++. Voting to close, since language comparisons are off-topic on this site. Commented Dec 29, 2016 at 22:08
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    @julealgon: Tool comparisons are off-topic for this site as well. I am afraid for this type of questions there is probably no SE site. You can try on quora instead. Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 8:51