2019 Developer Ecosystem: Year in Review

2019 was a big year for developers. Here’s my summary of the most important releases and trends.

.NET

  • .NET Core 3.0 brought desktop support
  • C# 8.0 with nullable reference types
  • Entity Framework Core 3.0 (with breaking changes)
  • Blazor Server released

JavaScript

  • React Hooks changed how we write components
  • TypeScript continued to dominate
  • Vue 3.0 approaching (composition API)
  • Node.js 12 LTS released

Cloud & DevOps

  • Kubernetes went mainstream
  • Terraform 0.12 (HCL2)
  • GitHub Actions released

Looking Ahead to 2020

  • .NET 5 unification
  • Vue 3.0 release
  • Blazor WebAssembly
  • More serverless adoption

It’s been a productive year. Here’s to more learning in 2020!


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