.NET CLR
Shares rank 9 of 11 language runtimes by recommenders
People recommend CLR for its mature runtime, strong developer experience, and decades of deployment history, with good compilation target support and struct implementation.
People recommend CLR for its mature runtime, strong developer experience, and decades of deployment history, with good compilation target support and struct implementation.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, 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
Strong developer experience
“first class development experience, and decades of deployment experience”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Cloudflare Flagship” “I actually really like the CLR developer experience”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#” Mature, well-deployed runtime
“first class development experience, and decades of deployment experience”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Cloudflare Flagship” “the best virtual machine and runtime of it's kind”
Comment from 8 Oct 2026 in “Orkut.com” Good compilation target and structs
“I do think the C#/CLR struct implementation is better though.”
Comment from 19 Jun 2026 in “Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28” “actually tried to be a decent compilation target”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0”
Other language runtimes people recommend
The four most recommended other language runtimes, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .NET | 293 | 148 | 66% | 12 | 10 yrs28 owners | — |
| BEAM (Erlang VM) | 80 | 25 | 76% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Java Virtual Machine | 42 | 23 | 65% | 12 | — | — |
| JVM | 39 | 22 | 64% | 11 | — | — |
| .NET CLRThis page | 9 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“They have been improving, this is one area however where those C# vs Java flamewars kind of miss out.”
“the best virtual machine and runtime of it's kind”
“or just JVM and .NET CLR if you prefer”
“I do think the C#/CLR struct implementation is better though.”
“actually tried to be a decent compilation target”
“first class development experience, and decades of deployment experience”
“I actually really like the CLR developer experience”
“was superior to JVM at this from the start through at least Java 7”
“GC available on JVM and CLR runtimes are much more advanced than WASM GC will ever be.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.