NodeServices allows ASP.NET Core developers to make use of the entire NPM ecosystem, which gives rise to a huge range of possibilities. 

This release contains a number of significant changes, including a transition to Swagger/OpenAPI v3 and support for ASP.NET Core 3.0, and will require modifications to your application setup if you're upgrading from previous major versions. 

Today, we’re excited to introduce GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code.

GitHub Package Registry is fully integrated with GitHub, so you can use the same search, browsing, and management tools to find and publish packages as you do for your repositories. You can also use the same user and team permissions to manage code and packages together. GitHub Package Registry provides fast, reliable downloads backed by GitHub’s global CDN. And it supports familiar package management tools: JavaScript (npm), Java (Maven), Ruby (RubyGems), .NET (NuGet), and Docker images, with more to come.

• PHP is actively developed with a new release each year
• Performance since the PHP 5 era has doubled, if not tripled
• There's a extremely active eco system of frameworks, packages and platforms
• PHP has had lots of new features added to it over the past few years, and the language keeps evolving
• Tooling like static analysers has matured over the past years, and only keeps growing 

SQL Server 2019 introduces support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding. This has been a longtime requested feature and can be set as a database-level or column-level default encoding for Unicode string data.  

var watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();

 int actionId = db.CF_AccessLevel.Where(a => a.Name.ToLower().Trim() == "Edit").Select(a => a.CF_AccessLevelId).Single();

 int moduleItemId = db.CF_ModuleItem.Where(m => m.Title.ToLower().Trim() == "license".ToLower().Trim()).Select(m => m.CF_ModuleItemId).Single();

 int groupRoleId = db.Users.Where(u => u.UserId == 1).Select(u => u.UserRoleId).Single();

watch.Stop();
 var elapsedMs = watch.ElapsedMilliseconds;

var watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
 var something = Task<int>.Factory.StartNew(() => db.CF_AccessLevel.Where(a => a.Name.ToLower().Trim() == "Edit").Select(a => a.CF_AccessLevelId).Single());
something.Wait();
int actionId = something.Result;

var something1 = Task<int>.Factory.StartNew(() => db.CF_ModuleItem.Where(m => m.Title.ToLower().Trim() == "license".ToLower().Trim()).Select(m => m.CF_ModuleItemId).Single());
 something1.Wait();
 int moduleItemId = something1.Result;

var something2 = Task<int>.Factory.StartNew(() => db.Users.Where(u => u.UserId == 1).Select(u => u.UserRoleId).Single());
 something2.Wait();
 int groupRoleId = something2.Result;
 watch.Stop();
 var elapsedMs = watch.ElapsedMilliseconds;

A lot of time this keyword was a mystery for me and many starting JavaScript developers. It is a
powerful feature, but requires efforts to be understood

Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we’re happy to announce that we made it even easier with the Windows Compatibility Pack, which provides access to an additional 20,000 APIs via a single NuGet package.