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Add to SafariWhen comparing ASP.NET Core vs Proton native, the Slant community recommends ASP.NET Core for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies?” ASP.NET Core is ranked 5th while Proton native is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose ASP.NET Core is:
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++.
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Pros
Pro Fast and getting faster
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++.
Pro Multi platform
Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).
Pro Built-in middleware
Built-in middleware featuring: Authentication, Cookie policy, Health Check, MVC, Session etc.
Pro Hosting
Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.
Pro Ease of Use
Pro Security
It is a very secure platform.
Pro Tooling
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.
Pro JSON optimization
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.
Pro Tutorials and documentation quality
Both microsoft and 3rd party tutorials are mostly of high quality and encourage you to use the industry best-practices.
Pro Open source
Pro Uses native tools
Not running a browser to manage the GUI, it uses less resources than the alternatives.
Pro No chromium
Is not based on chromium.
Cons
Con Microsoft environment
Con Not popular
Not being popular as electron js, its development isn't quite at the same pace.
Con No styling
Being based on libui, CSS styling isn't available.
