title: Unity Container and Support for dotnet Core / netstandard
body: <p>So MS dropped (free sourced) Unity. <a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2015/08/21/the-future-of-unity/" rel="noreferrer">Future of Unity</a><br>
  The github repository appears inactive <a href="https://github.com/unitycontainer/unity" rel="noreferrer">Unity on GitHub</a>  </p>
  
  <p>Anybody know what is going on with Unity ?<br>
  Is there a IOC Dependency Injection tool for dotNet Core,
  if Unity is a dead end under dotnet core?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Still waiting on news about Unity.<br>
  <strong>Alternatives for those searching</strong>: <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/structuremap/" rel="noreferrer">StructureMap</a>  ,  <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/Autofac/" rel="noreferrer">AutoFac</a><br>
  or our selection , <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/SimpleInjector/4.0.0-beta1" rel="noreferrer">SimpleInjector</a>  It very active on GitHub. There are many downloads daily already ~1Million from Nuget alone. And its fast, very well documented, a nice API with good extensibility.  <strong>Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection</strong> would have been the next choice. We dont have ASP.NET project, If you do then definitely look at MS DI. You can use MS DI in DotNet Core too,<br>
  I like <a href="http://simpleinjector.org" rel="noreferrer">SimpleInjector</a> more. The docu is good, with over 500 downloads a day and more than 1 million in total, Simpleinjector has gone past critical mass.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT2:</strong> Unity might just do a phoenix for .netcore. It is still kicking.<br>
  <a href="https://github.com/unitycontainer/unity/issues/198" rel="noreferrer">See Unity for .netStandard discussion</a> on github.  Although there isnt a great deal of activity yet. There is at least some support to get it working on Core. The question is will it be too little too late?
  Late migrators may still benefit. For now (2018) it still looks like alternatives are requried.<br>
  SimpleInjector is on making solid progress as a legitimate replacement.<br>
  <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/SimpleInjector/" rel="noreferrer">See SimpleInjector Nuget page</a>.
  Nearly 3 million downloads and >1k per day. As of June 2018.</p>