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The most recent .NET Framework still keeps 1.1 assemblies for compatibility. And yep, .NET sucked and eventually got semi-abandoned.


This must be from an alternate timeline. There is no way to call what is currently going on with .net anything other than 0% abandoned.


The .NET Framework 1.x runtime is no longer supported, and the .NET Framework 2.0 runtime (used by v2.0-3.5 applications) won’t be supported after 2029. They are slowly abandoning support for old apps.

(Yes, if you fiddle with the config file they might work on the .NET 4.0 runtime. But that’s not something a typical user can/will do.)


.net is on version 9 now.


It keeps classes for backward compatibility, not assemblies. Some code still didn't migrate from them to not cause gratuitous churn. Also it's web scale, because untyped collections can hold values of different types just like javascript.


What are you talking about??? .NET never got abandoned! If anything its hit a very high bar now. Its one of the top frameworks to build an app across platforms.


They're referring to (I hope), the .NET Framework which is Windows-only and the last/latest version being 4.8. It should live a very long life, as Microsoft server infrastructure is built on it (SharePoint/Exchange).


.NET Framework is indeed getting sidelined, along with WPF and the other technologies from the .NET 1.1 era.




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