What they are saying at MS Build is 4.8 will be supported "forever" because there is too much code depending on .NET Framework, but new feature development is g

What they are saying at MS Build is 4.8 will be supported "forever" because there is too much code depending on .NET Framework, but new feature development is going into .NET Core 3+. By the time they reach .NET 5, they will have unified .NET Core, .NET Standard and Xamarin. They are skipping version "4" to avoid confusion with the second .NET Framework 4.8. I took "forever" to mean that they would still be issuing security patches to 4.8, for example. Given all that I don't know why you're insisting on phrasing it like that. There is only one future, sure. But you seem to be making it sound like 4.8 has a planned obsolescence date or something and Microsoft is saying the exact opposite.