---
title: "7 Reasons for Startups to Choose ASP.NET Over Node.js"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/7-reasons-for-startups-to-choose-asp-net-over-node-js-u1dg7mbfp
source_url: https://michaelscodingspot.com/asp-net-over-node-js
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2022-11-21T06:06:50.051Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["c#", "compliance", "javascript", "microsoft", ".net", "performance", "privacy", "rust", "security", "startup", "tech-news", "tools", "unity", "visual-studio"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 44
comments: 11
language: en
---

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# 7 Reasons for Startups to Choose ASP.NET Over Node.js

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 7 min read · 44 upvotes · 11 comments

## Summary

Companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, Uber, and many others use Node.js as their primary server technology or combine it with other languages.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@vitkuz** · 9 upvotes

> 1) There is no reason
> 2) There is no reason
> 3) There is no reason
> 4) There is no reason
> 5) There is no reason
> 6) There is no reason
> 7) There is no reason

**@0xcrypto** · 5 upvotes

> ### 1. .NET has better Performance
> Not always. But okay.
>
> ### 2. Node.js requires to mix & match languages to compensate for performance
> Not always.
>
> ### 3. C# is an amazing language
> Yes. ASP.NET (the framework) however, is not. The programmers often end up writing spaghetti. I miss the legacy code written in PHP. Legacy ASP.NET code is a nightmare. Half of the time, you won't even understand the error ASP.NET throws at you. Straight 5  hours of debugging just to find out that old version of EF does not "always" resolve relations and you should have used `.include()`.
>
> ### 4. Best tooling...

**@fullstacker** · 3 upvotes

> Are you sure you don't mean the other way around? Because as far as I know, Node.js is the cool kid on the block and ASP.NET is that weird uncle who still uses AOL.

**@look4regev** · 2 upvotes

> Interesting article taking the "less popular approach" for writing web services choosing ASP.NET over Node. I'm not convinced but I'll look slightly better on startups that will make that choice.

**@sendex** · 0 upvotes

> Thanks for sharing!

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