C# and .net Core - What They Offer!
If you want to know what C# and .net Core is as of 2025 and how open source it really is, or not. What it gets right, what it gets wrong, and an objective comparison to Java, Go, C++, etc. we will give you a quick overview. C# and .net core offer many things that prior versions of .NET did not offer.
* Portability between 3 platforms: Linux, Mac, Windows.
* Extreme speed and scalability. Far beyond any prior versions.
* Full Open Source! Very few caveats and how they play with the big OS players for decades.
* First class implementation of Dependency Injection and MVC patterns, very good Controller and Rest support, and hundreds more and many great ORMs.
* Very well tested and Robust Generics and Interface implementations.
* Free IDE: VS Code with tons of extensions.
* Visual Studio Community FREE as well.
* A gazillion OS libs and frameworks.