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Ask HN: NET Core a Viable Alternative to Django and Rails?
I've done a fair bit of web development in Django, Rails, and Laravel, but recently have been working on some C# desktop applications. I've found C# delightful to use. LINQ in particular is absolutely wonderful. I was wondering if anybody has experience with using .NET Core as an alternative to Django et al? I love almost everything about Django, except for the lack of static typing due to Python. I would like an ORM that offers composable queries, migrations, and a built-in administration interface like Django offers.
- smt88 8y agoI find .NET Core to be much better than Django. EF Core is great and mature. The admin interface isn't built in, but the C# ecosystem is huge, and you can easily find one that suits your needs. When considering language usability, safety, ecosystem, stability, support, performance, and popularity together, I wouldn't use any other stack. I want to use F# or Rust, but I'm worried I won't be able to hire enough people who know them already.
- bishala 8y agoCouldn't agree more. .NET core is amazing. I generally use Ruby with microframeworks like Roda for most of my projects. But now after spending some time with ASP.NET Core, I don't think I would want to do any web project in a dynamically typed language/framework. The tooling is also awesome with ASP.Net Core.
- claudiug 8y agoI've play a little bit with netcore but I still have the feeling that people are more for enterprise business and not so much packages. I like more the rails/django community :) biased opinion :)
- vkaku 8y agoLook at AutoMapper for .Net
- philonoist 8y agoThe main contention in industry is - It is not a viable alternative unless it has robust support for non-Windows based OS. I can't wrestle with them but I don't have to. I am comfortable with Windows.
- bishala 8y agoI would say the support is pretty good for non-Windows based OSes already. Giants like Bing and Tencent have been using .NET Core in production for some time now.