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I wouldn't rely on "setup everything in 1 command" as indicative of platform quality but .NET does come with the CLI and the unmatched Visual Studio, both of wh

I wouldn't rely on "setup everything in 1 command" as indicative of platform quality but .NET does come with the CLI and the unmatched Visual Studio, both of which have plenty of templates and tooling to get you started quickly. Everything you mentioned can be done with some packages and a few lines of code, and the entire framework does have some opinionated conventions but with much more freedom than Rails. The fact that you can have MVC, Razor Pages, raw controllers, and Blazor all in the same app shows just how much freedom you have.

KurtMueller 6y ago
That freedom is/was overwhelming for me. With Rails, you can choose the relational database and the frontend libraries you want to use - that's really about it. There's a default path I can take if I want to get up and running quickly - it comes with strong opinions and sane set of defaults. I think Microsoft is moving in the right direction though. Scott Hanselman has some .net core 101 videos out on Youtube that are good to get up and running.