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Discussion on: The newly announced future of .NET - unifying all the things

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Albert Moravec

How I understand it there will be no .NET Standard, .NET Framework, .NET Core after .NET 5. And I think it's only natural and the development has been going this way for quite a few years since they announced Standard.

Another aspect that in my opinion led to it is the evolution of the C# language, because the .NET team stated that the development will only continue outside of the .NET Framework.

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Multi

I agree that this is the right direction.
But .NET Core is not going anywhere, it will just be rebranded and upgraded to .NET 5, as Microsoft said: ".NET Core is the future of .NET".

Also Microsoft has not yet said what's going to be with .NET Standard. I think it should stay, because although .NET 5 will merge nearly all different .NET foundations together, except .NET Framework.. and developers still need a way to target both .NET Framework and .NET 5 in their libraries.. so yeah, until .NET Framework will be completely deprecated Microsoft can not drop the .NET Standard.