I <i>LOVE</i> it.<p>I&#x27;ve been building in MVC3&#x2F;4 for the last few years so have quite a bit of experience with how MS has been evolving in this space. From &quot;BundleTransformers&quot; through &quot;Web Essentials&quot; and now suddely all the way to GULP<p>I started building a weekend and evenings project in EF7+MVC6 at Beta6 and have suffered through breaking changes in beta7 &amp; 8 but each stage of the way I&#x27;ve enjoyed myself.<p>Some of the things that I have recently struggled with is getting the project working on linux VMs and docker.<p>While I can get boilerplate projects working, this &quot;bigger&quot; project struggles to compile on docker.<p>Part of it may be my own fault since I&#x27;ve split the solution into multiple projects (&quot;WEB&quot;, &quot;API&quot;, &quot;MODEL&quot;) where MVC6 seems to have a paradigm of keeping everything in the same project, but it does seem to work OK on a windows 10 host (I keep wanting to test it on azure but that&#x27;s another story)<p>There isn&#x27;t any clear path as of yet from &quot;building something that runs locally in VS&quot; to getting it hosted in a &quot;massively scalable cloud of containers&quot;<p>I&#x27;m exploring docker and kubernetes at the moment - but progress is slow :)<p>Additionally - in terms of development - I&#x27;d like to see some more scaffolding, like I see with (for example) strongloop&#x2F;loopback in node.js I&#x27;m finding that my API breaks down in .NET when I try and use an EF entity around since we get into circular JSON references.<p>Anyways, I&#x27;m starting to get off on a tangent.  I really do like what I see in .NET5 though feel there are some pains in places. Specifically around containerizing &amp; rapid application development.