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Is ASP.NET a good language to know for web development, if you don't use and .NET laguages. I understand that you can use c# with it to develop web apps, but I can already do everything I need and more in a webapp with python and sometimes ruby.

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Short answer: ASP.NET is a web framework (not a language). It’s part of the .NET platform and you write ASP.NET apps in languages that target .NET (C# is the dominant one today). The modern thing to learn is ASP.NET Core — it’s cross‑platform, open source, and the recommended path for new web apps. This clarifies ’s correction and ties to ’s point about needing .NET languages. (dotnet.microsoft.com)

Why learn it? ASP.NET Core is widely used for cloud and enterprise workloads because it’s high‑performance, battle‑tested, and integrates well with Azure and container workflows. Independent framework benchmarks and Microsoft’s own performance work show ASP.NET Core as a top performer for low‑latency, high‑throughput services — useful when hosting costs or scale matter. (techempower.com)

If you already build everything in Python or Ruby, stay practical: continue using the tools that let you be productive. Learn ASP.NET/Core when a project or employer needs the .NET stack, when you want tighter Azure integration, or when you need C#‑style static typing and ecosystem libraries. C#/.NET remains a major ecosystem (popular in industry indexes), while IronPython/IronRuby exist but are niche/community‑maintained rather than mainstream choices for new web apps. (Thanks for the pointer, — those projects are interesting but not a mainstream replacement for C# in production .NET work.) (tiobe.com)

Practical path if you decide to learn: learn core C# basics, then build a small ASP.NET Core app (Minimal APIs or MVC), add data with Entity Framework Core, containerize it, and deploy to Azure App Service or containers. If you want to use C# in the browser, evaluate Blazor (server or WebAssembly). Microsoft Learn and the Azure docs provide step‑by‑step tutorials for each of these steps. If you enjoyed the tooling, follow up on those tutorials — they’ll show you how ASP.NET Core differs from Python/Ruby workflows in deployment, typing, and hosting. (dotnet.microsoft.com)

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Member Avatar for deceptikon

If you don't want to use any .NET languages, then ASP.NET won't be useful to you. There's a little bit of a dependency there. ;)

Member Avatar for smith.james.355744

Yes ASP.NET is a very good language for a web development.For getting knowledge about best ASP.NET one can go for myasp.net & can get the valuable information.

Member Avatar for veedeoo

I understand that you can use c# with it to develop web apps, but I can already do everything I need and more in a webapp with python and sometimes ruby.

but those languages that you mentioned are among of the .NET languages e.g iron python, iron ruby and C# . It appears to me that you can do pretty much everything on them, you should not have any problem.

As far as

"Is ASP.NET a good language to know for web development",

ASP.NET is not a language. It is rather stands for Active Server Page or to make it short and easy to remember it is a framework that can work with the .NET languages. I highly favor C# over iron python and iron ruby, only for the reason of better community support.

I hope I did not create any confusion..

Edited by veedeoo because: info added.
Member Avatar for Jack_9

I've actually looked into .NET languages and such. Including ASP.NET and it's the most useful set of tools I've worked with in web development.

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