ASP.NET Core vs V

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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

V is easier than C and fast like C.

V is simple and powerful.

V has generics.

Follows the philosophy that there should be only one way to do something, as opposed to multi-paradigm languages like C++.

A visual editor for building native GUI apps is planned, it will use WinAPI/GDI+ on Windows, Cocoa on macOS. On Linux custom drawing is used.