MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core

Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by Touche on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:40PM (#10165917)

.NET was already somewhat popular on Linux for GTK apps. I don't know if you're going to see adoption for web servers unless it can be competitive with Java in performance, which I don't think Mono has traditionally been.

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by deet on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:55PM (#10166023)

Seconded. Performance is the main thing holding me back.

I'm very excited about C# and other .NET languages for server applications, and would like to make it my primary server side environment, but am waiting for three things:

1) A production ready compiler and runtime on Linux (coming) 2) Tooling to support the new .NET project structures and dependency management (coming, it seems) 3) A production ready server solution with reasonable performance. On Mono, .NET Linux server apps consistently score near the bottom of benchmarks, essentially ruling it out. (Who knows? It seems too early to know whether this will happen.)

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by pbz on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:17PM (#10166181)

There has been work on performance and more to come (source: ASP.NET Community Standup podcasts). The stated goal is to be in the ballpark of the top performers. You can follow the progress here:

https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks

Just keep in mind that the work just started (and it was recently put on hold to get the Linux version - beta 7 - out the door).

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by jongalloway2 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @03:23PM (#10166987)

Updates have slowed on it (I haven't had the heart to nag them because they've been so busy with beta 7) but they're continuing to make good progress on it, e.g. https://twitter.com/DamianEdwards/status/632000189818007552

"Kestrel hit 151k RPS just now for plaintext test with pipelining (depth 16). Lots of known things to fix still, big gains to come #aspnet"

"have a fix in the works that'll give us another 5-10% & a list of other things to attack after that. Fun stuff :)"

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by deet on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:27PM (#10166265)

Very happy to see a focus on performance on the roadmap.

I've actually seen that benchmark page, but all the results it lists are for the Web Server running on Windows (perfsvr), where Linux is only used for load generation.

Any idea if the results are similar with the server running on the Linux machine (perfsvr2)?

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by jongalloway2 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @03:24PM (#10166994)

That's a good question to ask now that beta 7 is out. I'll try to remember to bring that up at the next Community Standup.

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