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Dancer vs .NET: What are the differences?
Dancer: Simple but powerful web application framework for Perl. Dancer is a free and open source micro web application framework written in Perl; .NET: A free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. .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.
Dancer and .NET can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Dancer and .NET are both open source tools. It seems that .NET with 11.1K GitHub stars and 2.4K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Dancer with 446 GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks.
I was considering focusing on learning RoR and looking for a work that uses those techs.
After some investigation, I decided to stay with C# .NET:
It is more requested on job positions (7 to 1 in my personal searches average).
It's been around for longer.
it has better documentation and community.
One of Ruby advantages (its amazing community gems, that allows to quickly build parts of your systems by merely putting together third party components) gets quite complicated to use and maintain in huge applications, where building and reusing your own components may become a better approach.
Rail's front end support is starting to waver.
C# .NET code is far easier to understand, debug and maintain. Although certainly not easier to learn from scratch.
Though Rails has an excellent programming speed, C# tends to get the upper hand in long term projects.
I would avise to stick to rails when building small projects, and switching to C# for more long term ones.
Opinions are welcome!
Decided to change all my stack to microsoft technologies for they behave just great together. It is very easy to set up and deploy projects using visual studio and azure. Visual studio is also an amazing IDE, if not the best, when used for C#, it allows you to work in every aspect of your software.
Visual studio templates for ASP.NET MVC are the best I've found compared to django, rails, laravel, and others.
Pros of Dancer
- Fast1
- Easy1
- Stable1
- Microframework1
Pros of .NET
- Tight integration with visual studio271
- Stable code261
- Great community189
- Reliable and strongly typed server side language.182
- Microsoft140
- Fantastic documentation119
- Great 3rd party libraries89
- Speedy80
- Great azure integration71
- Great support63
- Highly productive34
- C#34
- Linq34
- High Performance31
- Great programming languages (C#, VB)28
- Open source25
- Powerful Web application framework (ASP.NET MVC)19
- Clean markup with razor16
- Fast16
- Powerful ORM (EntityFramework)15
- Dependency injection13
- Constantly improving to keep up with new trends10
- Visual studio + Resharper = <310
- High-Performance9
- Security8
- TFS8
- Huge ecosystem and communities7
- Integrated and Reliable7
- Job opportunities7
- Light-weight6
- Lovely6
- Asynchrony5
- Variations5
- {get; set;}5
- Concurrent4
- Support and SImplicity4
- Default Debuging tools4
- Useful IoC4
- Scaffolding4
- Entity framework4
- Blazor3
- F♯2
- Nuget package manager2
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Cons of Dancer
Cons of .NET
- C#13
- Too expensive to deploy and maintain12
- Microsoft dependable systems8
- Microsoft itself8
- Hard learning curve5
- Tight integration with visual studio3
- Not have a full fledged visual studio for linux3
- Microsoft itself 🤡🥲1
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