The discussion in this corefx github issue is pretty interesting to follow. https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/973 https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues

The discussion in this corefx github issue is pretty interesting to follow. https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/973 https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/973 It probably answers a few of the questions several have asked in this thread with regards to what the .NET Core is.