マイクロソフトは .NET Standard が歴史的役割を終えたとして、.NET Standard 2.1 をもって .NET Standard 規格の更新を終了すると発表した[5]。.NET 5以降において新たな.NET APIはランタイムの共通ライブラリとして標準化無しに直接提供される。
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^".NET Standard is a formal specification of .NET APIs" .NET Standard. Microsoft. 2022-12-18閲覧.
^.NET Standard "The motivation behind .NET Standard was to establish greater uniformity in the .NET ecosystem." Microsoft. 2022-12-18閲覧.
^The future of .NET Standard "this has served us well: .NET Standard is supported by over 77% of the top 1000 packages. And if we look at all packages on NuGet.org that have been updated in the last 6 months, the adoption is at 58%." Landwerth. (2020) .NET Blog.
^The future of .NET Standard "in .NET Standard 2.1, we standardized brand new APIs and that’s where we saw quite a bit of friction. ... all APIs must be reviewed by the .NET Standard review board. ... These reviews are necessary because there are different implementations of the .NET stack, with different constraints. ... you realize that .NET Standard can’t ship very frequently." Landwerth. (2020) .NET Blog.
^The future of .NET Standard ".NET Standard 2.1 will be the last version of .NET Standard" Landwerth. (2020) .NET Blog.