ASP.NET Core vs helidon

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).

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.

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.

Helidon supports MicroProfile and provides familiar APIs like JAX-RS, CDI and JSON-P/B.

Helidon is just a collection of libraries running on a fast Netty core, there is no extra overhead or bloat.

Helidon Reactive WebServer provides a modern functional programming model and runs on top of Netty. Lightweight, flexible and reactive, the Helidon WebServer provides a simple to use and fast foundation for your microservices.