New featured in NET Core 2.0
• Fastest version of .NET ever
• More APIs
• More project templates
• More distros
• Simplified packaging
• New and improved Visual Studio tooling
• Visual Studio for Mac support
Has much bigger API surface
Extended to cover intersection between .NET Framework and Xamarin
Also makes .NET Core 2.0 bigger as it implements .NET Standard 2.0
+20K More APIs than .NET Standard I.x
Can reference .NET Framework libraries
Compatibility shim allows referencing existing .NET Framework binaries
No recompile required — also covers existing NuGet packages
Limited to libraries that only use APIs that are available for .NET Standard