It’s expected that .NET will celebrate its 21st anniversary on February 14, 2022. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions and myths about NET instead of NET Framework. We will clear all your misconceptions related to .Net in this article.
Top 6 .NET Myths
- NET for Windows
- slower than Node/Python/Go/Rust
- legacy platform
- expensive tooling
- Isn’t NET friendly open source
- for boomer enterprise development
Myth 1: .NET for Windows
It is about the Net early days of the NET framework. A net framework built for windows and internals, with Win32 APIs via P/Invoke barred from being cross-platform.
At that time, Miguel started a mono project Net to Linux but not seriously. In 2016, .NET Core began to address many gaps in Mono and the lingering dependencies on the Win32 APIs.
Myth 2: It’s Slower than Node/Python/Go/Rust
.NET 6 high in throughput in web workloads. Gives the throughput of any frameworks run on Node and Python many times, competing favorably with Rust and Go.
It has always supported asynchronous programming models like async/await inaccessible, in earlier days using asynchronous delegates and thus rarely used by most developers. As a result, blocking I/O becomes a key constraint without particular asynchronous programming, even in a multithreaded runtime.
Myth 3: Legacy Platform
NET is considered an adult associate within the U.S, straightforward to envision as a “legacy” platform with the new children being Go and Rust. Rapid era and continued innovation concerning the runtime and supported programming languages allowed dynamic languages and features to be incorporated. NET.
As .NET has evolved, it has adopted many functional programming techniques. Today it is built using a mixture of object-oriented and functional techniques. NET. The runtime supports:
- pattern matching
- discards
- deconstructing and tuples
- expression-bodied members
Myth 4: Expensive Tooling
Early tooling in Visual Studio was entirely in the thousands of dollars, so expensive. These days Microsoft and others provide a free, required, fully-featured Community Edition of Visual Studio others:
- paid and free licenses with JetBrains Rider
- Visual Studio for macOS
- and of course, VS Code
Myth 5: Isn’t .NET Open Source Friendly
In the days of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer. Since Satya Nadella came, Microsoft’s entire trajectory for open source has shifted. Microsoft’s OSS approach is perfect, and there are still some ways for Microsoft to transform and grow on this front. But it was a long journey from the closed ecosystem in the early days.
The NuGet package repository did not have as many package options as NPM. The critical packages are very stable, well written, secure, and well documented.
Nuget tends to be less “filler,” a side effect of a much richer set of standard and base class libraries. NET. Party libraries with a deep set of first-written and maintained by paid professionals are an incredible asset.
Myth 6: for Boomer Enterprise Development
The best platform for enterprise development. It is used in banks, defense, finance, insurance, cloud-scale backends, enterprise content management,like Languages accessible as C#, being able to build applications for virtual, any use case from desktop to devices to web servers to 3D games.
C# is compatible with the Unity game engine. You can build several games on the Unity engine, such as Escape from Tarkov, Cuphead, Hearthstone, and Rust.
.NET can also be used to build cross-platform apps using several frameworks like:
- Microsoft’s own Multi-platform App UI
- The Uno Platform
- and Avalonia
The reality is that .NET and C# are incredibly versatile and can highly perform runtime and language. To work with while allows many benefits for developers, teams, and enterprises.
