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.NET vs hapi: What are the differences?
.NET: A free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. .NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more; hapi: Server Framework for Node.js. hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services.
.NET can be classified as a tool in the "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category, while hapi is grouped under "Microframeworks (Backend)".
"Tight integration with visual studio" is the top reason why over 243 developers like .NET, while over 23 developers mention "Makes me Hapi making REST APIs" as the leading cause for choosing hapi.
.NET and hapi are both open source tools. It seems that hapi with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.16K forks on GitHub has more adoption than .NET with 11K GitHub stars and 2.37K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, .NET has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1561 company stacks & 231 developers stacks; compared to hapi, which is listed in 54 company stacks and 33 developer stacks.
Decided to change all my stack to microsoft technologies for they behave just great together. It is very easy to set up and deploy projects using visual studio and azure. Visual studio is also an amazing IDE, if not the best, when used for C#, it allows you to work in every aspect of your software.
Visual studio templates for ASP.NET MVC are the best I've found compared to django, rails, laravel, and others.
Pros of .NET
- Tight integration with visual studio266
- Stable code254
- Great community183
- Reliable and strongly typed server side language.175
- Microsoft136
- Fantastic documentation113
- Great 3rd party libraries85
- Speedy75
- Great azure integration67
- Great support60
- Highly productive28
- Linq28
- C#27
- High Performance26
- Great programming languages (C#, VB)24
- Open source22
- Powerful Web application framework (ASP.NET MVC)17
- Powerful ORM (EntityFramework)14
- Clean markup with razor14
- Fast13
- Dependency injection11
- Constantly improving to keep up with new trends9
- Visual studio + Resharper = <39
- TFS7
- Security6
- High-Performance6
- Job opportunities6
- Integrated and Reliable6
- Huge ecosystem and communities5
- Lovely5
- Light-weight5
- Variations4
- {get; set;}4
- Asynchrony4
- Entity framework3
- Support and SImplicity3
- Concurrent3
- Useful IoC3
- Scaffolding3
- Default Debuging tools2
- Blazor2
- Nuget package manager1
Pros of hapi
- Makes me Hapi making REST APIs25
- Simpler than other REST libraries14
- Configuration14
- Quality Driven Ecosystem13
- Modularization13
- Easy testability5
- Better validation1
- Restify0
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Cons of .NET
- C#11
- Too expensive to deploy and maintain11
- Microsoft dependable systems7
- Microsoft itself7
- Hard learning curve4
- Tight integration with visual studio2
- Not have a full fledged visual studio for linux1
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