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I get what you mean and I agree, but this is far from low level networking

I’m also a bit confused where is .NET Core coming to the picture. It’s becoming faster and faster but it’s definitely not the best tool for load balancers.

Why not? The latest techempower results show ASP.NET Core saturating a 10GbE network card with 7M+ req/sec while being a full-featured framework, compared to custom C++ web servers. [1]

The memory management, type safety, and high-level productivity make it great for building load balancers and other infrastructure components.

1. https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturati...

You'd have to know how much memory and cpu was being used vs the other solutions. They're all very close in terms of the key metric, but if Rust is using 50% of the memory, then its not much of a competition. Also, what sort of vm tuning, etc.

True but you can dive into the benchmarks more if you visit the techempower site. They run it on the same standardized hardware and in this .NET is very competitive on cpu and ram.

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