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.NET

9.7K
5.6K
+ 1
1.9K
Node.js

183.9K
156.1K
+ 1
8.5K
Phoenix Framework

942
990
+ 1
678
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Pros of .NET
Pros of Node.js
Pros of Phoenix Framework
  • 271
    Tight integration with visual studio
  • 261
    Stable code
  • 189
    Great community
  • 182
    Reliable and strongly typed server side language.
  • 140
    Microsoft
  • 119
    Fantastic documentation
  • 89
    Great 3rd party libraries
  • 80
    Speedy
  • 71
    Great azure integration
  • 63
    Great support
  • 34
    Highly productive
  • 34
    C#
  • 34
    Linq
  • 31
    High Performance
  • 28
    Great programming languages (C#, VB)
  • 25
    Open source
  • 19
    Powerful Web application framework (ASP.NET MVC)
  • 16
    Clean markup with razor
  • 16
    Fast
  • 15
    Powerful ORM (EntityFramework)
  • 13
    Dependency injection
  • 10
    Constantly improving to keep up with new trends
  • 10
    Visual studio + Resharper = <3
  • 9
    High-Performance
  • 8
    Security
  • 8
    TFS
  • 7
    Huge ecosystem and communities
  • 7
    Integrated and Reliable
  • 7
    Job opportunities
  • 6
    Light-weight
  • 6
    Lovely
  • 5
    Asynchrony
  • 5
    Variations
  • 5
    {get; set;}
  • 4
    Concurrent
  • 4
    Support and SImplicity
  • 4
    Default Debuging tools
  • 4
    Useful IoC
  • 4
    Scaffolding
  • 4
    Entity framework
  • 3
    Blazor
  • 2
    F♯
  • 2
    Nuget package manager
  • 1.4K
    Npm
  • 1.3K
    Javascript
  • 1.1K
    Great libraries
  • 1K
    High-performance
  • 805
    Open source
  • 486
    Great for apis
  • 477
    Asynchronous
  • 423
    Great community
  • 390
    Great for realtime apps
  • 296
    Great for command line utilities
  • 84
    Websockets
  • 83
    Node Modules
  • 69
    Uber Simple
  • 59
    Great modularity
  • 58
    Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
  • 42
    Easy to start
  • 35
    Great for Data Streaming
  • 32
    Realtime
  • 28
    Awesome
  • 25
    Non blocking IO
  • 18
    Can be used as a proxy
  • 17
    High performance, open source, scalable
  • 16
    Non-blocking and modular
  • 15
    Easy and Fun
  • 14
    Easy and powerful
  • 13
    Future of BackEnd
  • 13
    Same lang as AngularJS
  • 12
    Fullstack
  • 11
    Fast
  • 10
    Scalability
  • 10
    Cross platform
  • 9
    Simple
  • 8
    Mean Stack
  • 7
    Great for webapps
  • 7
    Easy concurrency
  • 6
    Typescript
  • 6
    Fast, simple code and async
  • 6
    React
  • 6
    Friendly
  • 5
    Control everything
  • 5
    Its amazingly fast and scalable
  • 5
    Easy to use and fast and goes well with JSONdb's
  • 5
    Scalable
  • 5
    Great speed
  • 5
    Fast development
  • 4
    It's fast
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 4
    Isomorphic coolness
  • 3
    Great community
  • 3
    Not Python
  • 3
    Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
  • 3
    TypeScript Support
  • 3
    Blazing fast
  • 3
    Performant and fast prototyping
  • 3
    Easy to learn
  • 3
    Easy
  • 3
    Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
  • 3
    One language, end-to-end
  • 3
    Less boilerplate code
  • 2
    Npm i ape-updating
  • 2
    Event Driven
  • 2
    Lovely
  • 1
    Creat for apis
  • 0
    Node
  • 120
    High performance
  • 76
    Super fast
  • 70
    Rapid development
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    Erlang VM
  • 46
    Well designed
  • 45
    Channels
  • 39
    Easily Scalable
  • 35
    Very extensible
  • 35
    Restful
  • 11
    Functional Programming
  • 10
    Inspired by Rails
  • 10
    Great community
  • 8
    Beautiful code
  • 8
    Ecto
  • 6
    Scalable
  • 6
    Fault tolerant
  • 5
    LiveView feature
  • 4
    Elegant
  • 4
    Insanely fast and easy
  • 4
    Feels like working with rails framework with more power
  • 3
    Built-in websocket support
  • 3
    Benevolent dictator that decides project course
  • 3
    Great integration with GraphQL
  • 2
  • 2
    Front-End Agnostic
  • 1
    Functional approach

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Cons of .NET
Cons of Node.js
Cons of Phoenix Framework
  • 13
    C#
  • 12
    Too expensive to deploy and maintain
  • 8
    Microsoft dependable systems
  • 8
    Microsoft itself
  • 5
    Hard learning curve
  • 3
    Tight integration with visual studio
  • 3
    Not have a full fledged visual studio for linux
  • 1
    Microsoft itself 🤡🥲
  • 46
    Bound to a single CPU
  • 45
    New framework every day
  • 40
    Lots of terrible examples on the internet
  • 33
    Asynchronous programming is the worst
  • 24
    Callback
  • 19
    Javascript
  • 11
    Dependency based on GitHub
  • 11
    Dependency hell
  • 10
    Low computational power
  • 7
    Can block whole server easily
  • 7
    Callback functions may not fire on expected sequence
  • 7
    Very very Slow
  • 4
    Breaking updates
  • 4
    Unstable
  • 3
    No standard approach
  • 3
    Unneeded over complication
  • 1
    Can't read server session
  • 1
    Bad transitive dependency management
  • 6
    No jobs
  • 5
    Very difficult

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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.

What is 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.

What is 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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