Discord.Net/docs/guides/getting_started/terminology.md

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# Terminology

## Preface

Most terms for objects remain the same between 0.9 and 1.0. The major 
difference is that the ``Server`` is now called ``Guild`` to stay in 
line with Discord internally.

## Implementation Specific Entities

Discord.Net 1.0 is split into a core library and three different 
implementations - `Discord.Net.Core`, `Discord.Net.Rest`, 
`Discord.Net.Rpc`, and `Discord.Net.WebSockets`.

As a bot developer, you will only need to use `Discord.Net.WebSockets`, 
but you should be aware of the differences between them.

`Discord.Net.Core` provides a set of interfaces that models Discord's 
API. These interfaces are consistent throughout all implementations of 
Discord.Net, and if you are writing an implementation-agnostic library 
or addon, you can rely on the core interfaces to ensure that your 
addon will run on all platforms.

`Discord.Net.Rest` provides a set of concrete classes to be used 
**strictly** with the REST portion of Discord's API. Entities in this 
implementation are prefixed with `Rest` (e.g. `RestChannel`).

`Discord.Net.Rpc` provides a set of concrete classes that are used 
with Discord's RPC API. Entities in this implementation are prefixed 
with `Rpc` (e.g. `RpcChannel`).

`Discord.Net.WebSocket` provides a set of concrete classes that are 
used primarily with Discord's WebSocket API or entities that are kept
in cache. When developing bots, you will be using this implementation. 
All entities are prefixed with `Socket` (e.g. `SocketChannel`).