When working on our Windows-based computer, we install those applications that we consider useful in our day-to-day with the PC. But you have to take into account that there are other software elements working in the background that are very important for the correct functioning of the equipment. Next, we will talk about one of them, specifically we refer to the NET Framework software element.
It is more than likely that the regulars of this operating system are used to finding this element in different sections of it. For those of you who don’t know, we will tell you that it is a standard from Microsoft itself that facilitates the development of applications for Windows. At the same time, at the user level, it allows these programs to be executed in the best possible way and to work without errors. That is precisely why most PCs based on Microsoft software have this plugin running in the background.
But parallel to the NET Framework, on certain occasions we may have heard of or come across another important component, NET Core. Precisely for all this, below we are going to talk about both elements that are often confused as if they were the same. Actually, it is not like that, so we will show you the differences between the two. To begin with, we will tell you that NET Core is a new implementation of the .NET standard that is more modern and up-to-date than the NET Framework. Like this, the new standard includes everything necessary to create and run applications on the Microsoft system.
Here we find elements of the importance of compilers, class libraries, or the virtual machine where the applications we are talking about are executed.
Main differences between NET Core and NET Framework
This basically means that through NET Core we will be able to develop our own applications based on the C# or VB.NET languages, among others. In turn, one of the main differences that we are going to find in this case is that the new software component is open source. On the contrary, the NET Framework has some elements included that are Open Source, but it cannot be considered as open source in its entirety.
We also find that NET Core is kind of an update to the NET Framework but has been built from scratch. Of course, we must take into account that the already existing APIs and used by many developers have been taken advantage of. However, internally most of the software components have been re-implemented from scratch. With this, what has been wanted to achieve are a series of objectives that were raised at the time about its design and functionality.
At the same time, it is worth noting that this most current component is cross-platform. This means that we can use it on a system such as Linux or macOS. Another advantage that it offers us is that it is a completely modular component, unlike the NET Framework. Thus, as it is made up of several independent pieces of code, the development of applications is simplified, among other things, by the possibility of locating errors more easily.
It is also interesting to know that the main operations of NET Core are carried out through the command line and also performance is prioritized here.
