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

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

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

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year79 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-05-14 08:04:17 UTC to 2026-04-16 12:23:46 UTC.

0510152014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 1 submissions, 12 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13112
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

5 sources
mattmanser·May 9, 2017
Easier to read here: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/2022#issuecomment-2995... How does the reassure you? To me that reads: Boys! We've been caught. Quick, do Jazz hands and pretend it doesn't matter! That does not seem like a sane response to me. We move fast and break things and that's good is not something we should be hearing as a justification at this point. And he's making a deal out of it being supported till 2018! A whole year! What do they think people are making on their framework? Apps that disappear after a year? Once you commit to a framework you'll be supporting it for 5 or 6 years. Am I totally misreading it, as to me that is really not a reassuring response at all, quite the opposite. It seems to me that they've completely lost touch with their customers who want a stable, fast and predictable new version of MVC 4.
In The new ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages can no longer be used on .NET Desktop
mythz·May 9, 2017
> Moving Asp.Core 2.0 target to Netstandard 2.0 is a sensible step to me. Read the issue carefully, they've done the exact opposite and have started changing ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages from targeting .NET Standard to now only target .NET Core netcoreapp2.0 so they will no longer be able to be referenced from the full .NET Framework. They've also just announced that ASP.NET Core 1.x will be the last version that will be able to run on the Desktop CLR: [1]: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/2022#issuecomment-3000...
In The new ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages can no longer be used on .NET Desktop
jsingleton·Jan 23, 2017
I wonder if there is some confusion between .NET Standard and .NET Core. As .NET Standard 2.0 is a thing but I can't find any official reference to .NET Core 2 yet. Obvious, this will eventually come but it's not on the roadmap yet as far as I can see. https://github.com/aspnet/home/wiki/roadmap https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/07/15/net-core-... Disclaimer: I've not been paying as close attention as I did last year when writing my book on .NET Core (https://unop.uk/book/). So I may just have missed something. Edit: I've found some more info: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/roadmap.md#ship-d... Milestone Release Date .NET Core 2.0 Spring 2017 .NET Standard 2.0 Spring 2017 This is weird as I had previously heard this would be v1.2. Perhaps it is but it's now a major bump rather than a minor one. Either a
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breaking change or to tie in with .NET Standard? I guess this means it won't stay aligned with the ASP.NET Core versions now? I spend time writing a helpful comment and the thread gets flagged. :(
In The .NET Core 2 Wave

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