--- title: What is .NET, and why should you choose it? | daily.dev description: The post provides an overview of the pillars and design point of the .NET platform. It discusses productivity, performance, security, and reliability as the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-net-and-why-should-you-choose-it--phsl-hs0c twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is .NET, and why should you choose it? | daily.dev og:description: The post provides an overview of the pillars and design point of the .NET platform. It discusses productivity, performance, security, and reliability as the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-net-and-why-should-you-choose-it--phsl-hs0c og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pHSl-Hs0C.png og:image:alt: What is .NET, and why should you choose it? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is .NET, and why should you choose it? **[ASP.NET Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/aspnet)** · 21 min read · 12 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post provides an overview of the pillars and design point of the .NET platform. It discusses productivity, performance, security, and reliability as the key values of .NET. It also highlights the runtime, libraries, and languages as the pillars of the .NET stack. Additionally, it mentions the support for concurrency in .NET and the use of exceptions for error handling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#c](https://daily.dev/tags/c), [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#.net-core](https://daily.dev/tags/.net-core) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-net-and-why-should-you-choose-it--phsl-hs0c) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What is .NET, and why should you choose it?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-net-and-why-should-you-choose-it--phsl-hs0c","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-net-and-why-should-you-choose-it--phsl-hs0c"},"datePublished":"2023-02-14T16:02:48.115Z","dateModified":"2024-04-09T11:00:35.481Z","description":"The post provides an overview of the pillars and design point of the .NET platform. It discusses productivity, performance, security, and reliability as the...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3d345b53024561067586ba330d1a1cb9","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3d345b53024561067586ba330d1a1cb9","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ASP.NET Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ASP.NET Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/ff70247f4b29446e9d30433c3f38652a","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/aspnet"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-net-and-why-should-you-choose-it--phsl-hs0c","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":12},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"c,.net,.net-core","timeRequired":"PT21M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ASP.NET Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/aspnet"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What is .NET, and why should you choose it?"}]} ```