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Is there any data on the size of the .NET Core user base? It was my impression that .NET Core was unsuitable for production deployments so far. Also, .NET Core is primarily targeted at Linux users, right? Why would you even consider using .NET Core on Windows when you can utilize a fully featured .NET Framework?

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Few points:

- Deployments: https://www.microsoft.com/net/customers

- Monthly engaged developers is >500k for NET Core.

- >50% of developers are on Windows.

Note that some of the pull quotes on that site don't specify .NET Core, and probably predate it (e.g. the Stack Overflow story dates back to 2014, and refers to Framework).

We know that .NET Core is generally liked by Microsoft developers (with good reason), but I have no idea what corporate adoption is like, and would love to see indicators that people are actually migrating production systems. The existance of Core makes Framework that bit more annoying to deal with, and it would be nice to see that things are moving.

Stackoverflow team contributes to .NET Core itself since pre 1.0 dates. It is a pretty safe bet that they use it in production.

Corporate adoption is very good afaik. For .NET developers, .NET Core is a lot of fresh air and also a long overdue defence against Node. They want to continue to work with C# :)

> For .NET developers, .NET Core is a lot of fresh air and also a long overdue defence against Node.

Really?! US .NET developers or what?

I never worried about Node ever, with so many nice languages in .NET and Java worlds to chose from.

It's growing rapidly and .NET Core is definitely ready for production, has been for the last 2 years.

It's not a simple subset of .NET Framework, there are distinct differences and cross-platform is just one ability. It's also smaller, faster, and allows for self-contained deployments that can run with other apps using different framework versions on the same machine. Also very simple to use in containers.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/choosing-co...

> Is there any data on the size of the .NET Core user base? It was my impression that .NET Core was unsuitable for production deployments so far.

.NET core is a fully supported option on Google's AppEngine via flexible instances, so I think it's stable enough for production deployments.

UWP uses .NET Core alongside .NET Native toolchain.

Now with .NET Core 3.0 roadmap and MSIX containers, their are slowly merging Win32 and UWP worlds.

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