Is .NET Core == .NET Framework 5?

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To quote Scott Hansleman:

Naming is hard.

It’s very easy to armchair quarterback and say that “they should have
named it Foo and it would be easy” but very often there’s many players
involved in naming things. ASP.NET is a good ‘brand’ that’s been
around for 15 years or so. ASP.NET 4.6 is a supported and released
product that you can get and use now from http://get.asp.net.

However, naming the new, completely written from scratch ASP.NET
framework “ASP.NET 5” was a bad idea for a one major reason: 5 > 4.6
makes it seem like ASP.NET 5 is bigger, better, and replaces ASP.NET
4.6. Not so.

So we’re changing the name and picking a better version number.

REINTRODUCING ASP.NET CORE 1.0 AND .NET CORE 1.0

  • ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0.
  • .NET Core 5 is now .NET Core 1.0.
  • Entity Framework 7 is now Entity Framework Core 1.0 or EF Core 1.0 colloquially.

Why 1.0? Because these are new. The whole .NET Core
concept is new. The .NET Core 1.0 CLI is very new. Not only that, but
.NET Core isn’t as complete as the full .NET Framework 4.6. We’re
still exploring server-side graphics libraries. We’re still exploring
gaps between ASP.NET 4.6 and ASP.NET Core 1.0.

Update

On 7th of May 2019, Microsoft announced .NET 5

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.

.NET 5 = .NET Core vNext

.NET 5 is the next step forward with .NET Core. The project aims to improve .NET in a few key ways:

  • Produce a single .NET runtime and framework that can be used everywhere and that has uniform runtime behaviors and developer
    experiences.
  • Expand the capabilities of .NET by taking the best of .NET Core, .NET Framework, Xamarin and Mono.
  • Build that product out of a single code-base that developers (Microsoft and the community) can work on and expand together and
    that improves all scenarios.

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