My understanding from reading the many blog posts and some of the GitHub repo discussions: .NET Core is the refactored .NET libraries which are used by many pro

My understanding from reading the many blog posts and some of the GitHub repo discussions: .NET Core is the refactored .NET libraries which are used by many projects, one of which is .NET Native. The cross platform work is also only in .NET Core and not the .NET Framework, the new ASP.NET is as well. The open source .NET Core provides a subset of the libraries in the .NET Framework. Namely, .NET Core does not include WinForms, etc. The open source effort of .NET Core is divided into CoreFX (C# libraries) and CoreCLR "Runtime" (JIT, GC, C++ libraries, for the most part). .NET Native is built on .NET Core, but does not depend on the runtime (unclear to me what that means vis-a-vis GC, and C++ libraries, which I assume are still there... but certainly no JIT).