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.NET vs Iris: What are the differences?

  1. Execution Environment: .NET is a software framework designed by Microsoft, while Iris is a web framework implemented in Go. .NET is a versatile platform used for developing various types of applications, while Iris focuses specifically on web development.

  2. Community Support: .NET has a larger and more established community along with a vast number of libraries and resources available. On the other hand, Iris being a relatively newer framework, has a smaller community and a limited range of resources compared to .NET.

  3. Language Support: .NET primarily uses C# as its main programming language, while Iris primarily uses the Go programming language. This difference in programming languages directly impacts the coding style, syntax, and development tools used in each framework.

  4. Scalability: .NET provides a wide range of scalability options due to its vast ecosystem, including support for cloud services like Azure. Iris, being a lightweight web framework, may have scalability limitations, especially when handling heavy traffic or complex applications.

  5. Learning Curve: .NET, being a feature-rich framework developed by Microsoft, may have a steeper learning curve compared to Iris. Iris, on the other hand, is designed to be simple, lightweight, and easy to learn for developers looking to quickly build web applications.

  6. Performance: .NET, with its extensive ecosystem and optimizations, may offer more performance tuning options compared to Iris. However, Iris, being a lightweight framework built with performance in mind, may have better performance in certain web development scenarios.

In Summary, the key differences between .NET and Iris lie in their execution environment, community support, language support, scalability, learning curve, and performance characteristics.

Decisions about .NET and Iris
Ing. Alvaro Rodríguez Scelza
Software Systems Engineer at Ripio · | 12 upvotes · 353.9K views

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.

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Ing. Alvaro Rodríguez Scelza
Software Systems Engineer at Ripio · | 9 upvotes · 475.2K views

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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Pros of .NET
Pros of Iris
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    Tight integration with visual studio
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    Stable code
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    Great community
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    Reliable and strongly typed server side language.
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    Microsoft
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    Fantastic documentation
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    Great 3rd party libraries
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    Speedy
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    Great azure integration
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    Great support
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    Highly productive
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    C#
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    Linq
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    High Performance
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    Great programming languages (C#, VB)
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    Open source
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    Powerful Web application framework (ASP.NET MVC)
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    Clean markup with razor
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    Fast
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    Powerful ORM (EntityFramework)
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    Dependency injection
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    Constantly improving to keep up with new trends
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    Visual studio + Resharper = <3
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    High-Performance
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    Security
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    TFS
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    Huge ecosystem and communities
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    Integrated and Reliable
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    Job opportunities
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    Light-weight
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    Lovely
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    Asynchrony
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    Variations
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    {get; set;}
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    Concurrent
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    Support and SImplicity
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    Default Debuging tools
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    Useful IoC
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    Scaffolding
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    Entity framework
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    Blazor
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    F♯
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    Nuget package manager
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    Fast
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    Easy to use
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    Almost real-time support to its users
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    Fluent API
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    MVC efficient

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Cons of .NET
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    C#
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    Too expensive to deploy and maintain
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    Microsoft dependable systems
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    Microsoft itself
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    Hard learning curve
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    Tight integration with visual studio
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    Not have a full fledged visual studio for linux
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    Microsoft itself 🤡🥲
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    What is .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.

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    The fastest web framework for Go.

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