Node.js vs .NET Core the winner?

Yes We Have a Winner

Lanka Rathnayaka
Level Up Coding
Published in
9 min readJun 9, 2021

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This is a simple walk-through for anyone to get an idea about what's happening in these 2 leading technologies. I was wondering about the same issue and wanted to find out if there is a real winner

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One thing I noted was that the .NET core is backed up by Microsoft in a very positive way. This is really good and with the Microsoft tag in them, it has created a professional-level programming environment with supporting tools like Visual Studio. Visual Studio has made it easy in building, debugging, and publishing the .NET C# code over multiple platforms and devices.

Introduction

.NET Core

.NET is an open-source software development framework that was initially owned by Microsoft and then released to the open-source community. Initially, it had 2 branches like the .net framework which runs only on Windows, and the .net core which is cross-platform. But from .net core version 3, Microsoft stopped the earlier .net framework support. All the future releases are only .net Core versions and they are rebranded as .Net. NET Core is famous for building modern cloud-enabled, Internet-connected apps.

Node.js

Node.js is an open-source runtime environment to develop fast and scalable network applications. Node js is built on chromes javascript runtime which is called the V8 engine. Node js is highly preferable in data-intensive real-time applications as it uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model. Node js is not much preferred in developing process efficient applications such as…

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