Assembly a longstanding request from customers, Salesforce’s Heroku — one of many unique platforms as a service (PaaS) — has unveiled official help for .NET growth. 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 functions, will develop into usually obtainable in early 2025.
In a December 3 announcement, Heroku stated builders now can construct and deploy functions in C#, F#, and Visible Fundamental, leveraging frameworks equivalent to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. In explaining its new .NET help, Heroku stated .NET has developed 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 count on a cohesive, dependable expertise and constant updates, rigorous testing, and high quality assurance to construct and scale functions, 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.