🆚 ASP.NET Core vs. Play Framework

Microsoft ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform web framework and the successor to ASP.NET that enables development of web apps and APIs using .NET on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

It offers high performance via the Kestrel server, built-in dependency injection, unified MVC and Web API programming, minimal APIs, flexible configuration per environment, and side-by-side versioning.

Play Framework is a community-maintained, high-velocity web framework for Java and Scala.

It provides a stateless, asynchronous architecture based on Akka, a modular structure for scalable applications, hot code reloading, built-in testing support, and native JSON handling for APIs.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥉 Third most popular in Sweden in the Backend Frameworks category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Denmark in the Backend Frameworks category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Norway in the Backend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Backend Frameworks category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Backend Frameworks category.

• 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Backend Frameworks category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• ASP.NET Core technology profile
• .NET Foundation company profile

• Play Framework technology profile