Been using .NET for years now for backend web development after having taken a break from C#. It is such an improvement over the old .NET framework. When I started building my first backend with it, I was surprised how much was included and "just worked". Need to add authentication? Few lines. OAuth? Also built in. Response caching? Yes. ORM? EF Core is pretty good. Need to use env variables to override your JSON config? You are going to have to build a... just kidding that works with one more line too.
Coming from NodeJS, the amount of stuff that could be added with a single line from an official package was great. No more worrying about hundreds of unvetted dependencies.
> ORM? EF Core is pretty good.
We're moving to .Net, and I was surprised by how poor the built-in DB stuff is. It's like either assembly or Python, but nothing in the middle.
That said I've also been impressed about how nice it is to get stuff going. I used C# back in the .Net 1.1 days and yeah massive difference in ergonomics.
>It's like either assembly or Python, but nothing in the middle.
Dapper seems to be in the middle and it is pretty popular
Yeah, but from what I saw it doesn't help much with master-detail setups? Like, inserting or updating an order with order lines etc. We rely heavily on those.