Assembly a longstanding request from customers, Salesforce’s Heroku — one of many unique platforms as a service (PaaS) — has unveiled official help for .NET improvement. Heroku additionally made its Heroku Subsequent Technology Platform obtainable in a pilot. The corporate stated the brand new platform, which helps cloud-native and AI purposes, will turn out to be usually obtainable in early 2025.
In a December 3 announcement, Heroku stated builders now can construct and deploy purposes in C#, F#, and Visible Primary, leveraging frameworks akin to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. In explaining its new .NET help, Heroku stated .NET has advanced from a Home windows-only framework to a cross-platform, open supply ecosystem. Builders for years have relied on community-built buildpacks to run .NET apps on Heroku. Now .NET builders can anticipate a cohesive, dependable expertise and constant updates, rigorous testing, and high quality assurance to construct and scale purposes, Heroku stated.
A “getting began” tutorial for constructing a Blazor app utilizing a Heroku PostgreSQL database is accessible at devcenter.heroku.com. Additionally obtainable is Heroku .NET Assist Reference documentation. Along with .NET, Heroku lists Node.js, Python, Java, and Go as formally supported platforms. Heroku has confronted criticism for providing restricted deployment choices.
