For now, Microsoft's .NET Core milestones page shows .NET 5.0 about 53 percent complete, with 1,066 issues open and 1,216 issues closed.
Highlights of .NET 5 include:
- Developers will have more choice on runtime experiences.
- Java interoperability will be available on all platforms.
- Objective-C and Swift interoperability will be supported on multiple operating systems.
- CoreFX will be extended to support static compilation of .NET (ahead-of-time – AOT), smaller footprints and support for more operating systems.