Item: .NET
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with .NET

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

.NET is used across my department, it is used for [mission-critical real-time applications], for the manufacturing. It supports other software that run[s] in Windows O.S. so .NET can access [the] very easily and natively to the OS features. I use it even for integrating different systems, accessing DB, exporting data through web API, rest, etc.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Pure [object-oriented] programming
Super fast in developing time
Robustness
Reusability of code
Access windows API easily

Cons

Database accessing could be easier
Interfaces
Web services are confusing (at least classic .NET ones)

Most Important Features

Compatibility with COM dlls
Windows Native
Stability

Return on Investment

Less time in developing
Robustness
Negative is to be "bound" to a supplier

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Java SE

Java is confusing sometimes and has poor IDEs. Now it is no more open source, so it does not worth [starting] a project with Java. The new .NET Core is available for Linux and MacOS too, so it would not be a problem to plan a migration. Moreover[,] the performances are really better than Java's ones.

Key Insights

Do you think .NET delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with .NET's feature set?

Yes

Did .NET live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of .NET go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy .NET again?

Yes

Other Software Used

TIBCO Rendezvous, F5 BIG-IP, Apache Tomcat

Likelihood to Recommend

Useful for background application, console, server-side. If you already know JAVA the migration would be seamless. a must if used in [a] windows environment. the developing and releasing time is very good, integration with source control systems like GIT is native, if you do not have visual studio professional, visual studio code is free.

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Robustness, speed, clear code: go with .NET!