Intermediate Language (IL)
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.. post:: Dec 30, 2020
   :tags: dotnet

Also referred to CIL (Common IL) or MSIL (Microsoft IL).

I think ILAsm (IL Assembly Language) is also the same thing but not really sure. (not ILASM, the assembler)


Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
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It is an open specification developed by Microsoft and standardized by ISO and Ecma.

Examples: .NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono

Among other things, CLI describes the following 4 aspects:

- **CTS** or Common Type System
- Metadata: Info about language structure
- **CLS** or Common Language Specification: For inter-operability between languages
- **VES** or Virtual Execution Engine: For compiling IL to native code and running it.