Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd
Today, we're announcing that the next release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. This will be the next big release in the .NET family.
There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more.
We will introduce new .NET APIs, runtime capabilities and language features as part of .NET 5.
[...] We intend to release .NET 5 in November 2020, with the first preview available in the first half of 2020. It will be supported with future updates to Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio Code
Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday May 07 2019, @02:49AM (3 children)
4.0 Came out in 2010. Are you literally a decade behind?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 07 2019, @09:52AM (1 child)
The SDK, yes. However, the topic is .Net Core, which will skip 4.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:01PM
That's because while the compiler and platform features changed, the actual VM had no changes to support 4.0 or 4.5. All the major changes were in "high level" functionality. Things like async and await were built on existing multithreading libraries. To a developer, they were real features, but to the VM it was indistinguishable from pushing task objects onto threadpools.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday May 07 2019, @10:04AM
No, he's literally nine years behind.