Assembly a longstanding request from customers, Salesforce’s Heroku — one of many authentic platforms as a service (PaaS) — has unveiled official assist for .NET growth. Heroku additionally made its Heroku Subsequent Era Platform obtainable in a pilot. The corporate mentioned the brand new platform, which helps cloud-native and AI purposes, will develop into typically obtainable in early 2025.
In a December 3 announcement, Heroku mentioned builders now can construct and deploy purposes in C#, F#, and Visible Fundamental, leveraging frameworks similar to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. In explaining its new .NET assist, Heroku mentioned .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 anticipate a cohesive, dependable expertise and constant updates, rigorous testing, and high quality assurance to construct and scale purposes, Heroku mentioned.
A “getting began” tutorial for constructing a Blazor app utilizing a Heroku PostgreSQL database is obtainable 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.
