I'm sure their MVC stack is fine, but this isn't a problem needing a solution in 2016. There are dozens are frameworks in your favorite language that can deal with taking HTTP requests, grabbing data from a backend, and spitting it out as JSON. They all run fine on Linux servers, are easy to develop on Mac.
C# is a nice language too, but I'd need a compelling reason to jump from Java / Scala over to .Net. And JetBrains puts out products just as good as Visual Studio for every major language.
The one thing that might make me consider this would be MS implementing the actual valuable part of .Net to Linux, Mac, and others: the desktop GUI libs and Visual Studio GUI tools.
Of course this will never happen since the MS dev tools team is beholden to the Office and OS departments.
Instead, I imagine .Net core will not gain much traction.
I'm sure their MVC stack is fine, but this isn't a problem needing a solution in 2016. There are dozens are frameworks in your favorite language that can deal with taking HTTP requests, grabbing data from a backend, and spitting it out as JSON. They all run fine on Linux servers, are easy to develop on Mac.
C# is a nice language too, but I'd need a compelling reason to jump from Java / Scala over to .Net. And JetBrains puts out products just as good as Visual Studio for every major language.
The one thing that might make me consider this would be MS implementing the actual valuable part of .Net to Linux, Mac, and others: the desktop GUI libs and Visual Studio GUI tools.
Of course this will never happen since the MS dev tools team is beholden to the Office and OS departments.
Instead, I imagine .Net core will not gain much traction.