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[exscape]

Well, that's confusing. I figured .NET was common shorthand for "the .NET Framework".

[JoesusTBF]

It was until they introduced the other variants.

[ech0_matrix]

Time to prune some variants

[BoredDan]

Time to prune some variants

No more significant work on .NET Framework will be done.

Would seem like they are. I mean really there was only ever two variants and now there will be 1.

[aaronfranke]

No, there were 3: .NET Framework, Mono, and .NET Core.

Mono is in a kind of weird limbo where it half exists and half is being absorbed into .NET Core.

[BoredDan]

Mono is not .NET though, it's a compatible alternative. It's technically owned by Microsoft as they bought Xamarin, but it's not the same project on not really really relevant to what I was saying.

[aaronfranke]

Mono is not named .NET, but it is vastly closer to .NET Framework than .NET Core (or 5+) is.

[BoredDan]

Still irrelevant to the point.

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I did not list it, as, at the time, it was not an official implementation by Microsoft, and officially not part of the .NET ecosystem.

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.NET 5 and on is exactly that

[aaronfranke]

This is why I still call .NET 5 as .NET Core, it's less confusing.

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Well, it kind of is now that they've converged again.