Microsoft just announced .NET Standard 2.1, its first update in more than a year as it plays catch-up with the .NET Core implementation, which is about to hit v2.2.
The .NET Standard is a formal specification of .NET APIs that are intended to be available on all .NET implementations. One of those implementations is the open source, cross-platform .NET Core, which has already hit v2.1 and will soon advance to v 2.2.
".NET Standard solves the code sharing problem for .NET developers across all platforms by bringing all the APIs that you expect and love across the environments that you need: desktop applications, mobile apps & games, and cloud services," Microsoft said Immo Landwerth, program manager on Microsoft's .NET team, in announcing .NET Standard 2.0 in August of last year...
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