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>.NET Standard is a standard that the 3 different implementations of .NET try implement (.NET, .NET Core and Mono). Any implementation of .NET Standard can add in extra functionality, hence superset, it's a bit silly.

It's actually pretty smart if it's implemented correctly (Which it's not, there is another article floating around the moment which says that .net standard isn't working correctly because people pick and choose what to implement anyway).

So the .net standard is essentially like "interfaces" in code. It says, if you want to say you are .net standard 1.6 you must implement these things.

When you go to write a library and you want to release it to the masses. You would normally have to go "OK, do I want to write this for .net core or .net framework?". With .net standard you can write it in a way that you know that a call to some method will always be there no matter what platform is actually running the library.

A bit more info here : http://dotnetcoretutorials.com/2017/01/13/net-standard-vs-ne...