The document summarizes updates and future plans for .NET Core and C#. Key points include:
- .NET Standard 2.0 provides over 32,000 APIs, allowing better cross-platform compatibility.
- C# 7.0 introduced features like tuples, pattern matching, and binary literals. Future versions will focus on smaller releases with opt-in features like recursive patterns and nullable reference types.
- The tooling ecosystem including Visual Studio and the dotnet CLI continue to improve with a shared SDK and common project format.