core VS .NET Runtime

Compare core vs .NET Runtime and see what are their differences.

core

.NET news, announcements, release notes, and more! (by dotnet)

.NET Runtime

.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps. (by dotnet)
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core .NET Runtime
106 606
20,557 14,091
0.6% 2.2%
9.2 10.0
7 days ago about 6 hours ago
PowerShell C#
MIT License MIT License
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

core

Posts with mentions or reviews of core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
  • .NET Monthly Roundup - March 2024 - .NET 9 Preview 2, Smart Components, AI fun, and more!
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    🌟.NET 9 Preview 2 ➡️.NET 9 Preview 2 Discussion ➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 ➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 Release Notes ➡️EF Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 ➡️.NET Aspire preview 4 - .NET Aspire
  • Locally test and validate your Renovate configuration files
    4 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    DEBUG: packageFiles with updates (repository=local) "config": { "nuget": [ { "deps": [ { "datasource": "nuget", "depType": "nuget", "depName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "currentValue": "7.0.0", "updates": [ { "bucket": "non-major", "newVersion": "7.0.1", "newValue": "7.0.1", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-02-14T13:21:52.713Z", "newMajor": 7, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "patch", "branchName": "renovate/dotnet-monorepo" }, { "bucket": "major", "newVersion": "8.0.0", "newValue": "8.0.0", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-11-14T13:23:17.653Z", "newMajor": 8, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "major", "branchName": "renovate/major-dotnet-monorepo" } ], "packageName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "versioning": "nuget", "warnings": [], "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/dotnet/runtime", "registryUrl": "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json", "homepage": "https://dot.net/", "currentVersion": "7.0.0", "isSingleVersion": true, "fixedVersion": "7.0.0" } ], "packageFile": "RenovateDemo.csproj" } ] }
  • The full API diff between .NET 7 and .NET 8
    1 project | /r/csharp | 17 Nov 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
  • Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    The tooling is not entirely open or freely available.

    If you, for e.g., want to debug you have to use MS tooling.[0] You also can't use VSCodium because only the MS built/distributed version of VSCode contains the necessary proprietary binary blobs necessary to debug C# (which also means you're forced to using the aggressive telemetry and other data collection built into the non-open source distribution of VSCode).

    They've also taken steps to lock down the LSP support for C#, which once again requires that you use a MS sanctioned code editor to write C#. [1]

    I really enjoy writing C# and think dotnet is a great platform to develop for, but the barriers preventing me from building more projects on it is that I don't want to be forced to use VSCode or Visual Studio.

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

  • New 64-bit game client
    1 project | /r/WoSB | 1 Jul 2023
    Microsoft does not adapt their new products to operating systems (https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/7556) which have reached End-of-Support status. Therefore, the game's system requirements have changed:
  • //////. How can you use the finder outer to recover lost crypto? ///
    3 projects | /r/TheShamanway | 10 May 2023
    Thanks to .Net core
  • Consulta Git Exclude Files
    1 project | /r/programacion | 3 May 2023
  • The Primeagen has thoughts on the RF’s licensing proposal
    1 project | /r/rust | 10 Apr 2023
  • Announcing BitcoinCashClient - A NuGet library for easy integration of BCH into any C# .NET application
    2 projects | /r/btc | 4 Apr 2023

.NET Runtime

Posts with mentions or reviews of .NET Runtime. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.
  • The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
    Yes, that is true. I'm not sure about JVM implementation details but the reason the comment says "virtual and interface" calls is to outline the difference. Virtual calls in .NET are sufficiently close[0] to virtual calls in C++. Interface calls, however, are coded differently[1].

    Also you are correct - virtual calls are not terribly expensive, but they encroach on ever limited* CPU resources like indirect jump and load predictors and, as noted in parent comments, block inlining, which is highly undesirable for small and frequently called methods, particularly when they are in a loop.

    * through great effort of our industry to take back whatever performance wins each generation brings with even more abstractions that fail to improve our productivity

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/4895a06c/src/vm/amd64...

    [1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core... (mind you, the text was initially written 18 ago, wow)

  • Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    If you care about portable SIMD and performance, you may want to save yourself trouble and skip to C# instead, it also has an extensive guide to using it: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/69110bfdcf5590db1d32c...

    CoreLib and many new libraries are using it heavily to match performance of manually intensified C++ code.

  • Locally test and validate your Renovate configuration files
    4 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    DEBUG: packageFiles with updates (repository=local) "config": { "nuget": [ { "deps": [ { "datasource": "nuget", "depType": "nuget", "depName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "currentValue": "7.0.0", "updates": [ { "bucket": "non-major", "newVersion": "7.0.1", "newValue": "7.0.1", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-02-14T13:21:52.713Z", "newMajor": 7, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "patch", "branchName": "renovate/dotnet-monorepo" }, { "bucket": "major", "newVersion": "8.0.0", "newValue": "8.0.0", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-11-14T13:23:17.653Z", "newMajor": 8, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "major", "branchName": "renovate/major-dotnet-monorepo" } ], "packageName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "versioning": "nuget", "warnings": [], "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/dotnet/runtime", "registryUrl": "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json", "homepage": "https://dot.net/", "currentVersion": "7.0.0", "isSingleVersion": true, "fixedVersion": "7.0.0" } ], "packageFile": "RenovateDemo.csproj" } ] }
  • Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
    https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/59591

    Support zstd Content-Encoding:

  • Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm (2017)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2024
  • Why choose async/await over threads?
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
    We might not be that far away already. There is this issue[1] on Github, where Microsoft and the community discuss some significant changes.

    There is still a lot of questions unanswered, but initial tests look promising.

    Ref: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94620

  • Redis License Changed
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024
    https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet exists for source build that stitches together SDK, Roslyn, runtime and other dependencies. A lot of them can be built and used individually, which is what contributors usually do. For example, you can clone and build https://github.com/dotnet/runtime and use the produced artifacts to execute .NET assemblies or build .NET binaries.
  • Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
    Yeah, it kind of is. There are quite a few of experiments that are conducted to see if they show promise in the prototype form and then are taken further for proper integration if they do.

    Unfortunately, object stack allocation was not one of them even though DOTNET_JitObjectStackAllocation configuration knob exists today, enabling it makes zero impact as it almost never kicks in. By the end of the experiment[0], it was concluded that before investing effort in this kind of feature becomes profitable given how a lot of C# code is written, there are many other lower hanging fruits.

    To contrast this, in continuation to green threads experiment, a runtime handled tasks experiment[1] which moves async state machine handling from IL emitted by Roslyn to special-cased methods and then handling purely in runtime code has been a massive success and is now being worked on to be integrated in one of the future version of .NET (hopefully 10?)

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/11192

    [1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/blob/feature/async2-exp...

  • Common Sorting Algorithms in C# - From My Experience
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Mar 2024
    Orderby Linq Code Reference
  • The Mechanics of Silicon Valley Pump and Dump Schemes
    8 projects | dev.to | 18 Feb 2024
    The math of the above is really simple. Microsoft has 13,000 stars on their GitHub profile for their flagship product. SupaBase has 63,000 stars on their GitHub project for their flagship product. 27% of all software developers in the world are using .Net. SupaBase has 4.5 times as many likes as the .Net Core runtime, so they must be 4.5 times as large, right? 4.5 multiplied by 27% becomes 130%. Implying 130% of all software developers that exists on earth are using SupaBase (apparently!)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing core and .NET Runtime you can also consider the following projects:

homebridge - HomeKit support for the impatient.

Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

CompreFace - Leading free and open-source face recognition system

ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

double-take - Unified UI and API for processing and training images for facial recognition.

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

Mycodo - An environmental monitoring and regulation system

WASI - WebAssembly System Interface

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

CoreCLR - CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes.

Domoticz - Open source Home Automation System

vgpu_unlock - Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs.