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Hi! I'm a CS student at the University of Cambridge, and an aspiring backend developer. I have experience with Rust and C#, and am particularly interested in cloud computing and distributed systems.
What do you find most useful / most annoying about .NET 5?
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.NET 5 is the latest and greatest version of .NET from the folks over at Microsoft, and it's better than ever. Almost everyone should migrate.
Up until now, .NET has been fragmented into 4 different platforms:
As you can imagine, this leads to issues with code compatibility, especially when developing cross-platform applications. .NET 5 is an evolution of Core which replaces the need for Standard. It provides a unified platform on which you can build any application.
There are three main reasons you should switch over:
In most cases, migrating to .NET 5 can be done in two steps:
Make sure to check any breaking issues before updating - here are breaking changes for .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0.
There are some older technologies that are no longer supported in .NET 5:
Newer alternatives to these can be found on Microsoft Docs, but they may take time to implement.
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