Why choose to be a .NET Developer? Why .NET is the first choice of Developers?
First let me explain why I thought to write on this topic, generally I get questions from social media. So I thought to provide a little detail that will help someone who is really want to choose. As I am involved with .NET since 2004 and what I found that whenever I got any project to work on, I got the option with .NET to work on.
The beauty of .NET is it has all option that we need if we have small projects then also it has the option and when we have a large project "so-called big projects". But it totally depends on how we use options of .NET and how much we have time to learn options of .NET, as it has many things and sometimes if we can not choose the needed part then we get unexpected results. But what I can assure you that if we can select, well what we need and have the expertise to implement it, then we get best results.
Now, look at 10 facts that will help us to understand, why choose to be a .NET Developer.
1. Free, Cross-platform and Open source
2. Platform for building anything yes "anything"
3. Development platform
- Visual Studio, VS Code, Visual Studio for Mac and Command Line
4. Write code with many .NET languages
- C#, F#, VB
5. Everybody wants to have a Successful Career
- Enough Jobs in market
6. Who want slow applications so .NET is Really Fast
- StackOverflow serves 5.3M page views a day on just 9 servers!
7. .NET is the platform of choice for the top 100K websites
- Companies like Raygun, GoDaddy, and Tencent choose .NET for better performance, increased flexibility, and higher compatibility.
8. Community Contribution
- Thousands of people all over the world contributing to the .NET platform.
9. The velocity of OSS Projects
- Top 30 Highest Velocity OSS Projects
10. Learn with Community
- Huge community and the .NET Foundation is key to help foster it
Hope with these points we have an overview of why choose to be a .NET Developer and if sounds cool then start learning .NET from dot.net