# Blazor 26 Hacker News commenters recommended Blazor and 23 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 5 years (4 owners). **Verdict:** People recommend Blazor for writing web and app UI in C# with little or no JavaScript, and for its built-in features within the .NET stack. The most common caveat is that the WebAssembly variant has large download sizes and slow round trips, and the server variant struggles with close-to-the-wire work. ## Why people recommend it - Write UI in C# instead of JavaScript (4 comments): "you can ditch all JS logic, and use raw C# for all front-end logic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693804)) "some of that JS sprinkle isn't even needed anymore" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050901)) "it feels very intuitive particularly when compared to other spa frameworks like react" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898350)) - Mature and ready for production (4 comments): "Blazor is pretty great. It is mature at this point and MS is using it internally more and more." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897709)) "Blazor is really nice, and ready for production." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982780)) "We used Blazor years ago and it worked flawlessly already then." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905817)) - Great for internal admin and backend tools (2 comments): "Blazor honestly is great for 'I need to write a simple backend control plane for whatever'." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907414)) "very nice for e.g. an internal admin site and the like" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551779)) - Strong .NET ecosystem and integration (3 comments): "great ecosystem (orleans, ef core, aspire, asp.net core, blazor, signalr, etc)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542702)) "with Blazor and SignalR you don't even have to think about those" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45894577)) "in the .NET world Blazor is quite popular as far as web frameworks go" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553430)) ## What people warn about - Large bundles and binary sizes (3 comments): "Blazor's initial bundle sizes made it quite difficult to consider as an option for web applications" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783382)) "Blazor builds huge binaries; often >10MB, which is a real problem." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50178429)) "Blazor WASM bundles a full version of the CLR into WASM" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906165)) - WASM and server variants both compromised (3 comments): "both WASM and Server versions have a lot of compromises" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909619)) "the additional friction of WASM roundtrips just eats all the advantage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078323)) "Click a button and see the page change in the length of a short yawn" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721386)) - Unclear long-term future and direction (3 comments): "I really love Blazor and heck even MAUI, but will they still be there in 10 years?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905539)) "Blazor is almost the right idea but I think this incarnation is a dead end." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907788)) "all the AI stuff that they are pushing on Blazor and Aspire." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150608)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend - [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend - [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend - [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend - [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Blazor", https://hackerapproved.com/p/blazor/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).