As per this comment: https://aspnetcore.slack.com/archives/general/p1464241815020472
As in: https://aspnetcore.slack.com/archives/general/p1464211494017795
Immo Landwerth (https://aspnetcore.slack.com/team/terrajobst) OK, first let me outline the general approach. As Miguel mentioned on Twitter, our goal is bring back more APIs to .NET Core. The general direction is:
- We're committed to a 100% source and binary compatibility with the subset of mscorlib and friends that are also exposed in Xamarin.
- We'll try to keep our implementation as factored as possible, without compromising (1).
- We'll have type forwarders from mscorlib and friends to our implementations (CoreCLR and CoreRT).
- We'll continue to support PCLs (mscorlib based as well as System.Runtime based).