Re:.NET Myths Dispelled
by hackerfromthefu on Monday March 14, 2022 @07:05AM
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Agreed, the versatility, as a mostly first class language across domains is awesome!
On the RoR comparison, while coding speed is similar, Blazor is an advancement, and then the runtime perf of .Net 6 vs RoR means having less servers, less cost, and less scaling challenges!
Techempower round 20 has ASP.NET at 309,458, compared to RoR at 8,260. That is 37 TIMES faster for .NET. Think of that as 37 times as much AWS bill for your RoR startup ..
For Web API maybe Go is a reasonable contender if you put up with the boiler plate and verbosity.
As for mobile apps, I didn't encounter anything as productive as Xamarin while being reasonably multiplatform.
I didn't do desktop apps since ages but I remember QT and Embarcadero's C++ builder as being quite productive.
But one platform to do it all? There isn't other. Javascript is today used everywhere but I wouldn't quite qualify it as productive or performant. And countless frameworks and libraries competing with each other kind of makes it a mess.