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.NET Framework isn't going anywhere. It is and will remain the basis for Xamarin.

.NET Framework 4.8 will be the last release though. Innovation will happen in .NET Core and the packs available for it (e.g. the Windows Desktop Pack).

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Xamarin isn't based on the .NET Framework. It is based on Mono which is in turn already consuming a lot of code from CoreFX (== .NET Core) and that share will only increase over time.

Source: I'm working on the Mono BCL+Tools team at Xamarin/Microsoft.

For current binaries. But what makes you think we won't start to see some syntax changes that can only run on .net core? That's the spirit of this evolution.

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