.NET 5

Moving on to .NET 6

Started trying out .net core.

For years I'd been hearing at every conference about MS's intention to make .net a multiplatform super-duper framework — the whole reason they published it as opensource. But their implementation ideas changed so often that I'd long since stopped taking it seriously.

What changed:

• The internet started filling up with articles about microservices on .net.
• Multiplatform IDEs began actively supporting .net.
• Kokosa's book reached me — the one that dissects the GC based on the published sources.
• eshop was already demonstrating the new .net quite convincingly.

On closer inspection it really does work, though it's still a bit bare. The json story is confusing.

We have a project with a microservices architecture on the horizon. So I'm starting active testing of the key candidate technology for the services.