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Discussion on: .NET Core vs .NET Framework

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Jay Jeckel

Sure. The Microsoft official runtime for .Net Framework was only written to work on windows, relying heavily on Windows' underlying Win32 api. It was unofficially possible to run .Net Framework code on Linux using the Mono project's Linux runtime and that was the foundation Microsoft used to create the cross-platform .Net Core.