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.NET vs PostCSS: What are the differences?
Developers describe .NET as "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. On the other hand, PostCSS is detailed as "Transform CSS with JS plugins". PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JS plugins. These plugins can support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.
.NET belongs to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack, while PostCSS can be primarily classified under "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions".
"Tight integration with visual studio" is the primary reason why developers consider .NET over the competitors, whereas "The "babel" of CSS" was stated as the key factor in picking PostCSS.
.NET and PostCSS are both open source tools. PostCSS with 21K GitHub stars and 1.15K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than .NET with 11K GitHub stars and 2.37K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, .NET has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1561 company stacks & 231 developers stacks; compared to PostCSS, which is listed in 62 company stacks and 47 developer stacks.
Originally, I was going to start using Sass with Parcel, but then I learned about Stylus, which looked interesting because it can get the property values of something directly instead of through variables, and PostCSS, which looked interesting because you can customize your Pre/Post-processing. Which tool would you recommend?
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 PostCSS
- The "babel" of CSS21
- Customizable15
- Autoprefixer8
- Variables2
- Mixins1
- CSS MQPacker1
- PostCSS Flexbugs Fixes1
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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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