ASP.NET
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Why people recommend it
“(DI, EF Core, ASP.NET Core...) so you still and up with proper architecture”
“ASP.Net Core is also a pretty good alternative to the ubiquitous nodejs?”
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“how they built on asp.net and like 7 servers and it scaled very well for years”
“being able to easily justify the use of out of the box ASP.NET Core”
Caveats and dissent
“Running say, Rails or ASP.NET or a Java site back then meant doing”
“I used to have this opinion about ASP.NET then ASP.NET Core and the great churn happened.”
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“currently according to techempower benchmarks ASP.net is 55th overall in minimal variant”
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“(DI, EF Core, ASP.NET Core...) so you still and up with proper architecture”
“ASP.Net Core is also a pretty good alternative to the ubiquitous nodejs?”
“C#, ASP.NET Core, EFcore, SQLite in the backend”
“This is asp.net core”
“ASP.NET”
“An ASP.NET Core application as a self-contained single-file binary”
“Running say, Rails or ASP.NET or a Java site back then meant doing”
“how they built on asp.net and like 7 servers and it scaled very well for years”
“Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET”
“the ASP.NET Core benchmark applications appear to be largely the same”
“being able to easily justify the use of out of the box ASP.NET Core”
“here are some of the better ones”
“You can have it as short as you want. For example check this minimal API”
“The cert selector on aspnetcore just looks at this reference and blocks until its not null.”
“moved on to FastAPI and ASP.NET”
“Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/EventStoreDB/Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, CQRS/Event Sourcing, Azure/AWS.”
“being much more mature, complete, and with one of the best ORMs (EF Core)”
“ASP.NET Core 10 API”
“C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET”
“C#/ASP.NET in the backend”
“I used to have this opinion about ASP.NET then ASP.NET Core and the great churn happened.”
“Can also recommend reading:”
“ASP.NET is world class”
“this section is just about the built-in web framework asp.net”
“The official aspnet core web framework is (in my opinion) good enough that you don't need anything 3rd party.”
“Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET”
“currently according to techempower benchmarks ASP.net is 55th overall in minimal variant”