Can someone ELI5 the difference between c#, .net, core, etc?

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  • .NET Runtime

    .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

    • That's the Mono runtime that's part of .NET (i.e. the code in dotnet/runtime/src/mono). But I don't think the Mono framework (i.e. the code in mono/mono) is used for much.

  • Mono

    Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.

    • That's the Mono runtime that's part of .NET (i.e. the code in dotnet/runtime/src/mono). But I don't think the Mono framework (i.e. the code in mono/mono) is used for much.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • virtual-environments

    Discontinued GitHub Actions runner images [Moved to: https://github.com/actions/runner-images]

    • App Center uses Mono ( which was recently updated to include Source Generators) on MacOS VM's to build Xamarin iOS apps. This will still be in production for quite some time as I don't see Xamarin developers porting Forms apps to MAUI very soon. The codebas from the mono repository has been largely merged for cross platform support in dotnet. I believe GitHub uses the same MacOS vms. https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/macos/macos-11-Readme.md

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