.NET
More info
- Owner
- Microsoft
- Released
- Type
- Development platform
- License
- MIT (modern .NET)
- Source
- github.com/dotnet/runtime
Microsoft's development platform — a shared runtime where C#, F# and VB.NET all compile to the same intermediate code.
Source becomes CIL (Common Intermediate Language), executed by the CLR, the runtime with JIT compilation and garbage collection. Multiple languages sharing a type system means an F# library can be called straight from C#.
The history runs in two tracks. The original .NET Framework from 2002 was Windows-bound and stopped at version 4.8. .NET Core, later just ".NET" from version 5 onwards, is an open and cross-platform rewrite and is now the only one still being developed.