There are a hundred different little and important reasons for using the prescribed IDEs, tools, APIs and SDKs provided for native compilation of binaries, and we hope our T2 guides help make that process painless as possible. We also agree that there are ways we can make it even easier, and more automated, and we're constantly looking at elegant ways to make this a reality. Right now, the various platforms have quite a laundry list of housekeeping tasks that are best handled by the tools designed for that job, and so we're happy to let that be the case until we have put more important things in place like a cool debugger, 3D, more platforms and more pipeline tools. We have tinkered with automating the build processes and I am sure we will bring something out to make T2 a more integrated experience. For now, we'll look at taking a few baby steps such as App Build Wizards and shorter smarter guides before we plum for 100% automation
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