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.NET vs .NET Core

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Overview

.NET
.NET
Stacks15.3K
Followers5.9K
Votes1.9K
GitHub Stars21.7K
Forks4.9K
.NET Core
.NET Core
Stacks7.0K
Followers2.6K
Votes155
GitHub Stars21.7K
Forks4.9K

.NET vs .NET Core: What are the differences?

  1. Framework Compatibility: .NET core is cross-platform and can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows, while .NET is primarily focused on Windows. This difference allows for more flexibility in deployment options.
  2. Performance: .NET Core has improved performance compared to .NET framework due to its lightweight nature and better optimization techniques. This results in faster application response times and better scalability.
  3. Deployment Model: .NET Core applications are deployed as self-contained deployments, which include the runtime and libraries required to run the application. On the other hand, .NET framework applications require the presence of the .NET framework on the target machine for deployment.
  4. Modularity: .NET Core is more modular than .NET framework, allowing developers to include only the necessary libraries and components in their applications. This results in smaller application sizes and reduced overhead.
  5. Support for Microservices: .NET Core has better support for developing microservices-based applications compared to the traditional .NET framework. It provides tools and features tailored for microservices architecture, making it easier to build and deploy such applications.
  6. Tooling and Development Environment: .NET Core offers improved tooling support and a more streamlined development environment compared to the .NET framework. This includes better integration with modern development tools and practices such as Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

In Summary, .NET Core offers enhanced performance, cross-platform compatibility, and improved modularity compared to the traditional .NET framework.

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Advice on .NET, .NET Core

Ing. Alvaro
Ing. Alvaro

Software Systems Engineer at Ripio

May 21, 2020

Decided

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.

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Anonymous
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
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

.NET
.NET
.NET Core
.NET Core

.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.

Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.

Multiple languages: You can write .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic.; Cross Platform: Whether you're working in C#, F#, or Visual Basic, your code will run natively on any compatible OS.; Consistent API & Libraries: To extend functionality, Microsoft and others maintain a healthy package ecosystem built on .NET Standard.; Application models for web, mobile, games and more: You can build many types of apps with .NET. Some are cross-platform, and some target a specific OS or .NET implementation.; Choose your tools: The Visual Studio product family provides a great .NET development experience on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Or if you prefer, there are .NET command line tools and plugins.
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
21.7K
GitHub Stars
21.7K
GitHub Forks
4.9K
GitHub Forks
4.9K
Stacks
15.3K
Stacks
7.0K
Followers
5.9K
Followers
2.6K
Votes
1.9K
Votes
155
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 273
    Tight integration with visual studio
  • 262
    Stable code
  • 191
    Great community
  • 184
    Reliable and strongly typed server side language.
  • 141
    Microsoft
Cons
  • 13
    C#
  • 12
    Too expensive to deploy and maintain
  • 8
    Microsoft itself
  • 8
    Microsoft dependable systems
  • 5
    Hard learning curve
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
C#
C#
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
F#
F#
Xamarin
Xamarin
Visual Basic
Visual Basic
Linux
Linux
C#
C#
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Sublime Text
Sublime Text
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
Vim
Vim
Visual Basic
Visual Basic
F#
F#
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

What are some alternatives to .NET, .NET Core?

Node.js

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

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

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

Laravel

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.

ASP.NET Core

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

Symfony

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

Spring

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

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 SDK

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

Phoenix Framework

Phoenix Framework

Phoenix is a framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems. Written in Elixir, you get beautiful syntax, productive tooling and a fast runtime.

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