.NET Core vs Play

Overview

Play

Stacks752

Followers609

Votes496

GitHub Stars12.6K

Forks4.1K

.NET Core

Stacks7.0K

Followers2.6K

Votes155

GitHub Stars21.7K

Forks4.9K

.NET Core vs Play: What are the differences?

What is .NET Core? An Open Source, General-Purpose Development Platform Maintained by Microsoft and the .NET Community. Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.

What is Play? The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala. Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

.NET Core and Play can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Great performance" is the top reason why over 2 developers like .NET Core, while over 73 developers mention "Scala" as the leading cause for choosing Play.

.NET Core and Play are both open source tools. It seems that Play with 11.2K GitHub stars and 3.77K forks on GitHub has more adoption than .NET Core with 11.2K GitHub stars and 2.41K GitHub forks.

Coursera, Zalando, and Keen are some of the popular companies that use Play, whereas .NET Core is used by Catchpoint Systems, Bluebeam Software, and Kaggle. Play has a broader approval, being mentioned in 112 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to .NET Core, which is listed in 54 company stacks and 71 developer stacks.

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Anonymous

Dec 16, 2019

Review

There has been a lot of buzz around having PostgreSQL for ASP.NET Core 3.1 web apps. But Configuring Identity Server 4 with PostgreSQL is a real challenge. I've made a simple video to configure the ASP.NET Core 3.1 based Web application that uses AngualrJS as front end with Single Page App capabilities with Identity Server 4 talking to the PostgreSQL database. Check out this Video tutorial on how to do that in detail http://bit.ly/2EkotL5 You can access the entire code here on github http://bit.ly/35okpFj

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Jakub

Jan 2, 2020

Decided

I was researching multiple high performance, concurent//parallel languages for the needs of authentication and authorization server, to be built on microservice architecture and Linux OS. Node.js with its asynchronous behavior and event loop suits the case best. Python Django & Flash turns to be slower and .NET Core & Framework wasn't the best choice for the Linux environment at the time (summer 2018).

I also tested Go lang and Rust, although they didn't meet the quick prototyping criteria as both languages are young and lacking libraries or battle-tested ORM.

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Detailed Comparison

Play	.NET Core
Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.	Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.
-	Cross-platform; Consistent across architectures; Command-line tools; Flexible deployment; Compatible with .NET Framework, Xamarin and Mono, via .NET Standard; Open source; Supported by Microsoft
Statistics
GitHub Stars 12.6K	GitHub Stars 21.7K
GitHub Forks 4.1K	GitHub Forks 4.9K
Stacks 752	Stacks 7.0K
Followers 609	Followers 2.6K
Votes 496	Votes 155
Pros & Cons
Pros 81 Scala 55 Web-friendly architecture 55 Built on akka 50 Stateless 47 High-scalable Cons 3 Evolves fast, keep up with releases 1 Unnecessarily complicated	Pros 30 Perfect to do any backend ( and a fast frontend) stuff 27 Fast 26 Cross-platform 25 Great performance 18 All Platform (Mac, Linux, Windows)
Integrations
No integrations available	Linux C# Visual Studio Code Sublime Text .NET Visual Studio ASP.NET Vim Visual Basic F#

What are some alternatives to Play, .NET Core?

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

.NET

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

ASP.NET Core

A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Android SDK

Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.

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"Great performance" is the top reason why over 2 developers like .NET Core, while over 73 developers mention "Scala" as the leading cause for choosing Play.

.NET Core vs Play