I just cant seem to understand these pillars of .NET.
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CTS (Common Type System)
So you can say CTS describes how types are declared, used and managed in the runtime and facilitates cross-language integration, type safety, and high performance code execution.
CLS (Common Language Specification)
The Common Language Specification (CLS) is an agreement among language designers and class library designers to use a common subset of basic language features that all languages have to follow.
As you can see in the image CLS is a subset of CTS
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