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Update docs to reflect the status of .NET Standard in 2020 #1781

Closed ishepherd closed 2 years ago

ishepherd commented 3 years ago

My understanding is, .NET Standard isn't the plan for standard .NET anymore. The plan is now .NET 5.

That isn't at all clear from the docs here which seem to be frozen in time. Suggest you make some slight edits to faq.md and README.md to reflect the new status of .NET Standard.

IanKemp commented 3 years ago

This repo is indeed frozen in time - a time before Microsoft decided that supporting Framework forever wasn't worth the pain, and hence that Standard was no longer necessary.

Microsoft being Microsoft, though, you're not going to be able to get an admission that they've killed off a certain product/technology, so this repo will likely remain both untouched, and quietly ignored, by them for the rest of eternity. It's like a monument to the potential for a horrifying alternate reality; a world where Framework was allowed to remain a shambling undead horror to forever haunt devs with nightmares of backwards compatibility.

They should update the docs as you've mentioned, then archive this repo.

terrajobst commented 2 years ago

The README in the default branch is reflecting this reality now.