InfoQ .NET Trends Report 2022

Key Takeaways

• The current .NET trends are highly related to Microsoft’s releases and new features. However, many trends are driven by independent frameworks and open-source technology.
•  User interface (UI) and communication frameworks experienced a particular evolution in the last years. They also represent a considerable part of all current trends in the .NET ecosystem.
• Most of the current .NET trends are related to features present in .NET 6 (the current stable version). However, due to the different degrees of maturity of different components, we can see topics related to .NET 6 in all trending stages.
• We can see some trends, such as cloud-native development and gRPC, in the early stages of adoption by the .NET community. These topics, however, are in later stages of adoption from other perspectives (such as Software Architecture and Cloud Development in general). This can be interpreted as the result of faster incorporation of already established technologies in the most recent .NET releases.
• Microsoft’s original intent of establishing .NET as a unified platform clearly advancing. This can be inferred by the number of current trends that are inherently cross-platform.