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.NET vs Redwood: What are the differences?
What is .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.
What is Redwood? An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack. It is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on AWS Lambdas around the world, all deployable with just a git push—that's Redwood.
.NET and Redwood can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by .NET are:
- 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.
On the other hand, Redwood provides the following key features:
- Opinionated defaults for formatting, file organization, webpack, Babel, and more
- Simple but powerful routing (all routes defined in one file) with dynamic (typed) parameters, constraints, and named route functions (to generate correct URLs)
- Automatic page-based code-splitting
.NET and Redwood are both open source tools. It seems that .NET with 13.2K GitHub stars and 3.11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Redwood with 2.69K GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks.
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 .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
Pros of Redwood
- React+Prisma+GraphQL2
- Cells2
- Storybook integrated development1
- Easy setup + generators1
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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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