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I am mostly a Python person, but I must confess I'm impressed by both modern .NET and Java's Spring Boot. I architect for two teams, one using Java, the other using C#, for building services and the amount of boilerplate code, that used to be a huge turnoff for me, has been impressively reduced.

There's still a lot, but it's now more or less comparable to what you'd expect you'd end up with on a similar app built on, say, FastAPI.

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I'd recommend taking a look at F#.

Isn’t there still lots of boilerplate, it’s just generated for you?

The boilerplate is pretty minimal nowadays. In 2020, C# introduced top-level statements, which removed a lot of the ceremony.

You used to have a class, and there would typically be a separate Startup.cs file. Today, this is a complete .cs file for creating an API:

    var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
    var app = builder.Build();

    app.MapGet("/", () => "Hello World!");

    app.Run();

"Hello world" is a one-liner Since .Net 6.

Nope. Take a look at Minimal API in .net 6 and onwards.

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