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

---
uid: Guides.GettingStarted.Terminology
title: Terminology
---

# Terminology

## Preface

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

## Implementation Specific Entities

Discord.Net is split into a core library and two different
implementations - `Discord.Net.Core`, `Discord.Net.Rest`, and
`Discord.Net.WebSocket`.

You will typically only need to use `Discord.Net.WebSocket`,
but you should be aware of the differences between them.

> [!TIP]
> If you are looking to implement Rest based interactions, or handle calls over REST in any other way,
> `Discord.Net.Rest` is the resource most applicable to you. 

`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.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`).