20 engineers on Hacker News describe using ASP.NET MVC first-hand: 5 endorse it, 4 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“so much churn with Webforms/MVC, LinqToSQL/various Entity Framework versions, all the WPF/WCF stuff”
regret · production · romanhn · 2022-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our legacy web app uses ASP.NET MVC which is a bit of a pain from a DevOps perspective since it has to run on Windows servers.”
regret · production · lancefisher · 2019-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really like ASP.Net MVC since v3 it's been a pleasure to work with”
endorse · production · tracker1 · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use ASP.NET MVC for a lot of this stuff, which combined with ADO.NET and SignalR and a good JS framework, gets you 75% of the way there.”
endorse · production · delluminatus · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Asp.net i still too slow and too heavy.. taking >1min to start a asp.mvc site?”
regret · production · zargath · 2014-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Basically if you nix webforms and .aspx files, and do your own templating ... it's not awful.”
mixed · production · overgard · 2014-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it a couple weeks, and I really like it. ... MVC 5 goodness”
endorse · personal · JeremyMorgan · 2013-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've seen the bundles out of the box in mvc, and feel that it's excessively painful”
regret · production · tracker1 · 2013-04-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MVC3/4 haven't been so bad. I like the naming-convention-based approach because Rails and other frameworks use it”
mixed · production · DougWebb · 2012-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ASP.NET MVC3 is chugging along nicely - I've been using it my new projects and the Razor syntax they introduced has been a huge productivity booster”
endorse · production · Aaronontheweb · 2010-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IronRuby + Sass for css with ASP MVC rocks. Optional parameters have killed off many pass-through overloads.”
endorse · production · statenjason · 2010-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“hoping to make sense out of our existing jQuery + ASP.Net MVC application.”
neutral · production · dbattaglia · 2025-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one project that had moved to .NET 3.5 so they could take advantage of an early version of ASP.NET MVC.”
neutral · production · bartread · 2025-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently led a refactor of a monolithic .NET MVC app”
neutral · production · stult · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the older stuff runs on MVC 5 on Azure Cloud Service.”
neutral · production · xorxornop · 2016-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used MVC 1.0 for my startup in 2009.”
neutral · production · dits59 · 2014-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“had to re-write it in .NET MVC hosted on IIS”
neutral · production · socialist_coder · 2013-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it at my job since version 1.”
neutral · production · 2 yr · jbigelow76 · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are ditching the traditional asp.net development and porting our app to MVC3.”
neutral · production · redidas · 2011-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as a .NET MVC developer. I am OK with the technologies they are using”
neutral · production · jayx · 2011-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?