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Comment by aceperry | Hacker News Reader

Funny thing is most MS devs seem to think that asp.net is on its way out.

There's ASP.Net and there's ASP.Net MVC. They're very different beasts, even though the latter is/was built upon the former. ASP.Net probably is on the way out, but MVC is not.

ASP.Net is going nowhere, the abomination known as Web Controls is on the way out (and good riddance).

It will never go away, there's too much code and money involved, but it won't be used for new projects.

"but it won't be used for new projects"

I would interpret that statement as: it's on the way out.

ASP.Net is not going anywhere, perhaps you should read a little closer before you respond.

asp.net is the web framework.

WebForms and MVC and WebAPI were different stacks that ran on top of asp.net to deliver different functionality. WebForms is the old school stuff and was great at what it did (which was replicate the winforms ability so desktop developers could rapidly create webapps) and serves millions of businesses today.

WebForms is still being supported but now finally seems to be removed from future roadmap. MVC and WebAPI have been combined together now. The latest stack is ASP.NET MVC 6 running on top of ASP.NET 5 running on top of .NET framework 4.6

ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages will merge into a unified "ASP.NET vNext". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET

Asp.Net 1.0 is still working on new servers. MS got compatibility covered better then any other firm :)

asp.net is not going anywhere, it's the name for the web focused framework of the .net stack.

The layers are ASP.NET MVC 6 running on ASP.NET 5 (the web framework) running on .NET Framework 4.6 (the core libraries).

There is no real alternative to ASP.NET.

I don't know about that. A lot of companies, some of the world's largest, use non-MS technologies and seem to get by very well.

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