Future plans for CommunityServer, potential .NET core migration?

Not sure if this is a feature request, I’m just wondering if there’s any plans for migrating CommunityServer/Workspace to .NET core, or porting the project to other modern framework/runtimes with better support for cross platform.

This question comes from someone who tested your product on linux and found multiple pain points such as battling the compilation process, no hot reloading with a long build process (at least on linux), a bunch of Mono related issues such as random spikes in cpu/memory with no apparent correlation with throughput/scheduled jobs ramping up, garbage collector issues such as random long stop the world events clogging the system (among others). On top of it, i never managed to run the app with an IDE, debugging is just a huge pain and i didn’t manage to find documentation regarding it.
When looking deep into these issues, they seem to stem from the legacy stack used. Maybe it’s working fine on windows, maybe the product was not designed with linux in mind, but nowadays with the majority of both retail and enterprise developers shifting to linux I’m just wondering if the Onlyoffice team is aware of these issues and if it’s planning anything in this direction.

Thanks for taking the time reading this, I still believe this is one of the better products, especially in the open source domain, and I hope it keeps evolving!

this is one of the better products, especially in the open source domain, and I hope it keeps evolving!

Thank you so much for your kind words, they mean a lot to every member of our team.

a bunch of Mono related issues such as random spikes in cpu/memory with no apparent correlation with throughput/scheduled jobs ramping up, garbage collector issues such as…

We’re aware of the issues you mentioned, and that’s actually why we started working on a solution a few years ago, right after .NET Core 3.1 beta was released.

That work led to a completely new product: ONLYOFFICE DocSpace, which is built on .NET Core.

The next step for DocSpace is adding new features, easier integrations, stronger privacy, and smart AI tools.

So, instead of a migration, we’re offering something better: a fresh new product.

Feel free to give ONLYOFFICE DocSpace a try!

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Hey Alex :slight_smile:

Thank you so much for the response. I will definitely look into DocSpace! I guess I was mainly stirred towards Workspace in the first place due to it’s documentation reach and quality.
As I invested some time with Workspace, I think one of the first things I would look into are differences between what products offer. I’m guessing I should be able to find some documentation or forum thread regarding this. Anyways, many thanks!

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