ASP.NET MVC
Shares rank 58 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
People recommend it as a productive, modern way to build software in .NET, and say it works much like traditional web frameworks.
People recommend it as a productive, modern way to build software in .NET, and say it works much like traditional web frameworks.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 50%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Modern, productive MVC in .NET
“Its modern replacement ASP .NET MVC works much more like traditional web frameworks.”
Comment from 1 Nov 2025 on Hacker News “It was a very productive way to produce most software.”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Composition Shouldn't be this Hard” “That was the first good MS web framework.”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Programming the Commodore 64 with .NET” - Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “The Business Case for Vanilla JavaScript”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| ASP.NET MVCThis page | 5 | 5 | 50% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This is the company that named its web framework "MVC".”
“Systems programmers make terrible things like ASP.NET MVC”
“hacky progressive enhancement”
“It was a very productive way to produce most software.”
“I am very happy with MVC in .NET Core”
“ASP.NET MVC alongside JS/TS frameworks does the job just fine”
“That was the first good MS web framework.”
“I'm just fondly remembering the ASP.NET MVC churn”
“Its modern replacement ASP .NET MVC works much more like traditional web frameworks.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.