Source https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/
The next release after .NET Core 3.0 (September 2019) will be .NET 5 (aka .NET Core vNext) (November 2020, and then, every November, in GA and LTS flavor).
It will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target all platform (Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, WebAssembly, …), a single .NET runtime and framework that can be used everywhere.
All new features (APIs, runtime, languages) will be add to .NET 5 (You saw Windows Forms, WPF, Entity Framework 6 …)
- Open source and community-oriented on GitHub.
- Optimization, bugfixes, … will be built faster into the .NET 5 (daily)
(I omit things about compiler and runtime, …)
Final word: It’s bold move. .NET become simpler but also have broader and more expansive capability and utility.
