Rocket vs ASP.NET Core

Rocket makes extensive use of Rust's code generation tools to provide a clean API.

Rocket streams all incoming and outgoing data, so size isn't a concern.

View, add, or remove cookies, with or without encryption, without hassle.

Unit test your applications with ease using the built-in testing library.

Easily create your own primitives that any Rocket application can use.

Rocket makes rendering templates a breeze with built-in templating support.

Handling query strings and parameters is type-safe and easy in Rocket.

From request to response Rocket ensures that your types mean something.

Spend your time writing code that really matters, and let Rocket generate the rest.

Configure your application your way for development, staging, and production.

Thanks to breakthroughs in ROSLYN compiler and the efforts of the .NET COre developer team, code written in C# can reach speeds just a step behind C++.

Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).

In .NET Core 2.1 and 3.0, new APIs are added that make it possible to write JSON APIs that require less memory, using Span<T> and UTF8 strings, and improve throughput of applications like Kestrel, ASP.NET Core web server. See also Utf8JsonReader.

Both microsoft and 3rd party tutorials are mostly of high quality and encourage you to use the industry best-practices.

Built-in middleware featuring: Authentication, Cookie policy, Health Check, MVC, Session etc.

Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.

It is a very secure platform.

Both VS and VSCode are powerful free IDEs that are well integrated with ASP.net Core. VS Community also allows for commercial use for projects with less than 5 developers.