Understanding .NET
.NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Native are related and overlapping platforms for developers to build applications and services upon.
Understanding .NET Framework
Microsoft's .NET Framework is a development platform that includes a Common Language Runtime (CLR) that manages the execution of code, and provides a rich library of classes to build applications.
Microsoft designed .NET Framework to have the possibility of being cross-platform, but Microsoft put their implementation effort into making it work best with Windows.
Practically speaking, .NET Framework is Windows-only, and a legacy platform.
Understanding the Mono and Xamarin projects
Third parties developed a .NET implementation named the Mono project that ...
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