NET: Prepare your company for the future

In this piece we will look into the changes coming in .NET framework during 2020 and ways to get ready for the transformation ahead. It’s always complicated to update your old stack in small increments. There are some strategies that could help you to handle these changes.

It’s going to be an amazing year for the .NET ecosystem:

• .NET Framework is “complete”. It’s not likely that there will be a new version of the framework. 4.8 will be the last one after 18 years.
• .NET Core 3.1 is an LTS (a Long Term Support version supported for three years after the initial release Dec 2019). This version of .NET Core will also be the last one. The most loved framework in 2019 is done, is it?

So, why is this going to be a great year? .NET 5 will come, in November 2020, to cover all the cases. It will be the new framework to solve all the problems. It will take the best from .NET Framework, .NET Core, Xamarin and Mono including AoT compilation. You will be able to develop apps for Windows, Mac, Web, Mobile, Cloud, IoT, Gaming, Machine Learning and Data Science. Of course, you will be able to create…