No, dotnet CLI is coming along for sure.<p>I was watching the community stand-up on Tuesday where Scott Hanselman and Damien Edwards discussed the reasoning in a little more detail.<p>They were pretty clear that they wanted to make sure they adapted and kept <i>all the things</i> they liked about project.json<p>And then rattled off a list.<p>I&#x27;m sure the single-file for multiple frameworks would be on the list of things they want to keep.<p>The shift to CSPROJ for them actually sounded (relatively) simple.<p>The current project.json becomes a PropertyGroup and they put everything inside that.<p>So they switch the mustaches for triangle brackets, but they did mention wanting to keep it &quot;light weight&quot;<p>I also know that Damien said something to the effect of &quot;we loved project.json probably MORE than many members of the community, but the choice had to be made&quot;