> Installing the full dotnet sdk was very high friction, in addition to the full csproj scaffolding.

What's the difference between installing .NET or, say, python of node?

Python typing hasn’t nearly caught up with C#. I regularly use both and c#’s type system is pragmatic and very helpful in avoiding bugs, whereas Python has no types by default and doesn’t check them by default when it does have them. It’s worse than typescript because at least typescript fails to compile if you have a type error.

You still need full dotnet sdk, the tool merely automates full csproj scaffolding, which is then compiled with full dotnet sdk, roslyn, nuget, compiler server and everything, and allows to customize msbuild project properties with pragmas in code. The only difference is that before you had sdk+folder+my.cs+my.csproj, now you have sdk+folder+my.cs