ASP.NET VNEXT IS:
-
Cloud and server-optimized
-
ASP.NET MVC and Web API have been unified into a single programming model
-
No-compile developer experience
-
Dependency injection out of the box
-
Side by side - deploy the runtime and framework with your application
-
NuGet everything - even the runtime itself
-
All Open Source via the .NET Foundation and takes contributions
Oh, and by the way
- ASP.NET vNext (and Rosyln) runs on Mono, on both Mac and Linux today. While Mono isn't a project from Microsoft, we'll collaborate with the Mono team, plus Mono will be added to our test matrix. It's our aspiration that it "just work."