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I'm enjoying reaping the rewards of all the dotnet core work in my F# projects. One critique: Why break semver? https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md#w... Like I get that it feels like a big change (and it is), but you've gone and confused a huge population of library writers and users with the major version bump. https://github.com/search?q=netstandard2.0&type=Issues&utf8=... How many of those are irrelevant or invalid? That's just github. I already see the noise being created in slack and gitter channels as well. Other than that I think dotnet core is an amazing engineering effort and I've been happy using F# on OSX with it.

For people confused about what .NET Standard is and how it relates to .NET Core: Here's an FAQ: https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md Here's a series of short videos from the product team explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRAdsfhKI4OWx321A_pr-... Short excerpt from the FAQ: .NET Standard is a specification that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation. Think of .NET Standard as POSIX for .NET. Having a standard solves the code sharing problem for .NET developers by bringing all the APIs that you expect and love across the environments that you need: desktop applications, mobile apps & games, and cloud services. Conceptually, I think of it in terms of browsers and browser standards. The relationship be

".NET Standard is a specification that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation. Think of .NET Standard as POSIX for .NET." https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md