It’s hard to change direction when you’re a company the size of Microsoft. In the past 18 months however, they’ve become considerably more open and modern. Today in a not so surprise move, Microsoft announced .NET Core 5, a component of the next version of the .NET framework which allows ASP.NET to be hosted on Linux servers in addition to Windows servers. 

.NET Core 5 is distributed in full via the nuget package manager. It’s self contained and means that you no longer need to install a huge .NET Framework package with a specific version to run an ASP.NET website. Everything needed to run it will be bundled with the application. On Mac and Linux, ASP.NET 5 will include a web server called kestrel which is similar to what comes with node.js. 

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