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It's a pity to see asp.net decline, MVC is really nice with great IDE support. If it's due to webforms dying then it's great news. It still angers me how webforms wasted my time as a junior developer thinking it was my lack of skill that made any page beyond the trivial extremely hard to build.

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Before, I used to hate MS and .NET. Today I work as a .NET dev and love C# and .NET.

Honestly, I think the moves MS is doing right now is the correct ones. With .NET Core a lot of the "heavy" stuff has been liften away and projects can easily be run on any big OS.

I think we will soon see a rise in the use of ASP.NET. The productivity levels you get by using .NET and Azure is just insane.

I love C# but I'm moving away from it because I don't want to end up in a situation where my only hosting option is Azure.

I would say that with .NET Core, there has not been a better time to choose freely from hosting providers since you can basically run it anywhere.

You don't need to run Azure?

Maybe but I'm somewhat doubtful, Microsoft only really has an incentive to support Linux/Apple as far as enabling development on those platforms.

MVC is awesome, .net core will probably be awesome as well when it gets more production ready. We use it a lot, though we also still doing a lot of webforms.

Potential hires don't know or want to do razor though, and if you're doing angular/vue/react you're using web-api and then you might as well use a backend with a better time to market anyway.

.NET does a lot of things right, but then you suddenly need to do a SAML SSO component for your ADFS and it's more terrible than basicaly everything.

Again, with questions as a metric, this could not necessarily be viewed as a decline but more as a maturation. Wouldn't you expect less React questions in 7 years or so as well?

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