Hey Greg, It's definitely a refreshing change indeed!
I took the week off (some training leave as well) to watch as much of the DotnetConf event and it was very well organised and presented. Great content. Dotnet is going in a single direction again, and Blazor is good. We're not "there" yet but some excellent movement in a great unified direction. I've been following along with Carl Franklin's https://blazortrain.com/ which I think he's presented very well. I'm loving how easy its been getting a Blazor (server side) app up and running. Very familiar and things are working well. I totally agree with your comments on Blazor. I've got mine deploying on a Linux vm on Vultr in a docker container. $120 a year (my personal projects have found Azure too expensive, even if you migrate over to Linux based... unfortunately). I'm happy! cheers Stephen ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on behalf of Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, 27 November 2020 8:24 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Blazor influence Folks, just a comment for the old VB sucks Friday discussions. Earlier in the year I expressed my admiration for Blazor Webassembly and my hope that it will put JS frameworks back where they belong in history books under the category of "Great IT follies of the 21st century". Now I've written some large Blazor Wasm apps, I believe I will never write any other kind of web app again. Not only would I never consider a JS framework, I will never consider any kind of ASP.NET<http://ASP.NET> server-side app either ... they're dead to me. (MVC web services and all their plumbing are dead to me too as I'd rather use Azure Functions) No more of that clumsy request-response pipeline to deal with (which is as dumb as a CB radio). No more dealing with statelessness. No more fudging to mix JavaScript with server rendered markup to attempt a responsive UI. No more configuration files and controllers and all their cryptic secret conventions. Using familiar tools like Visual Studio, Razor and C# I can write a Blazor app 10 times faster than an equivalent MVC app with about one tenth the amount of code, and the UI is snappy and it's a cinch to deploy. I hope others are as happy as me. Greg K P.S. Maybe there are reasons that ASP.NET<http://ASP.NET> server-side web apps would continue to be created, but someone else will have to think of them.
