.NET Core is a free and open-source software (FOSS) implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). It is a fork of the proprietary .NET Framework,[3] but it has been modified to be more modular and cross platform. It consists of CoreCLR, an implementation of the Common Language Runtime (CLR), and CoreFX, a partial implementation of the Base Class Library (BCL). Additionally, it comes with an improved JIT compiler, called RyuJIT.[4]

The project is hosted at GitHub.[5]

License

.NET Core, CoreCLR and CoreFX are licensed under the liberal MIT License. Additionally, the project is covered by a patent promise by Microsoft.

See also

References

  1. ^ “core/README.md”. GitHub. 
  2. ^ “core/LICENSE”. GitHub.  Retrieved 2015-02-14.
  3. ^ “Introducing .NET Core”.  Retrieved 2015-02-14.
  4. ^ “CoreCLR is now Open Source”.  Retrieved 2014-02-14
  5. ^ “.NET Foundation on GitHub”. 

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