8 : Why dotnet you?

04 Feb 2022

Rowan and Andy discuss their own experiences with the dotnet platform and why they use it day to day.

Random fact

In 1998 Microsoft “DirectX” team pitched a new gaming console known as the “directXbox.” It was later shortened to “Xbox.”

New release dotnet 6 + C#10 + f#6

dotnet conference just finished - November 9-11

launch event for VS2022 - Nov 8th

Why we like dotnet. Why it is our development platform of choice.

Safety - compiled, not interpreted, but scripting if you want it!

Languages
- C# - OOP
- F# - FP / OOP
- VB.Net - OOP
- High fidelity type system - powerful model
Security
- Security first, mature apis -
  - JWT parsing build into core - Identity management built into core
  - Security best practice Anti-Request Forgery Tokens etc CSRF, XXRF
- ASP.NET Core Identity
- Assembly signing (strong-named assembly)

Massive framework coverage

Web
- ASP.NET
- Blazor WASM / Server
- WebAPI
- Services / Daemon / Console apps
Platform specific app dev previous
- Workstation
  - WPF
  - Winforms
- Mobile
  - Xamarin
Now - Platform agnostic app development
- UI Everywhere
  - MAUI
Gaming
- Unity
Database
- EF
Distributed systems
- Dapr
- New Orleans
Azure and Serverless!
- Logic apps, Power Platform
Cross cutting libs / services
- ML.Net
- Azure services - endless!!
  - ML - computer vision, etc
  - Logging
  - Data

Super performant and production ready