Though according to: https://www.andrewhoefling.com/Blog/Post/net-5-and-the-future-of-net-framework-and-net-core
>.NET 5 and .NET Standard >What is the life of .NET Standard and will it be going away? >.NET Standard is not going anywhere as far as I understand and will be very >important to the success of .NET 5 as the code-base get's unified. With .NET 5 >the idea is to create a shared Base Class Library (BCL) that will have >different runtime virtual machines. > MonoVM > CoreCLR >The idea is you can have drop-in replacements with the different runtime VMs >but it will all be 1 .NET. Therefore it may be not so important to have specifically Microsoft VM since if it is fully compatible with community's Mono VM which is already present in OpenBSD ports?