Disclaimer: I'm writing these words just few days before the official release of Visual Studio 2017 RTM & about 2 months before the release of .NET Core 2.0. Hence you may find this post a bit pre-mature, but actually timing is on purpose - I'd like to make a stone-cold summary before all the marketing hype & another wave of rising hopes ... TL;DR .NET is ... lignifying. Not dying, retreating or drying out - simply lignifying. It's very solid & stout if you want to build upon it, but don't expect trunk of wood to behave like an evergreen…