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

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James Hickey

Not that it will stop, but it won't be getting new features like .NET Core. It will just be bug fixes and crititical stuff. And it's not recommended by MS to start any new projects with it. etc.

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Bojana Dejanović

Yes, I figured they will support it with bug fixes, patches etc. after all there is still a lot of codebase on old .NET Framework, so it makes sense. But in terms of new features they will not, as per article and comments above .NET 5 should unify everything and be the go to for w/ever platform you are targeting.

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Bojana Dejanović

From the pasted link:

If you have existing .NET Framework applications, you should not feel pressured to move to .NET Core. Both .NET Framework and .NET Core will move forward, and both will be fully supported, .NET Framework will always be a part of Windows. But moving forward they will contain somewhat different features. Even inside of Microsoft we have many large product lines that are based on .NET Framework and will remain on .NET Framework.