If you’re not developing with the .NET Framework, you’ve likely heard of .NET before and decided not to use it for various reasons. If you are one of the many users who are not using .NET because it is only available on Windows, doesn’t have a strong open source community, and isn’t keeping up with high performance web frameworks, you should take another look at .NET Core. .NET Core is now available in Linux with open-source source code. You’ll also find that current .NET Core frameworks are lightweight, modular, and focused on delivering high-performance results. Perhaps you are already a .NET Framework developer. If so, you may want to take advantage of the latest advances like containers, ASP.NET Core, or Entity Framework Core. Either way, there has never been a better time to use .NET.