What's the difference between SDK and Runtime in .NET Core?

Question

I\'ve read many articles, including this one, yet I can\'t still figure out what\'s the difference, and they have not explained it either in simple terms or at all.

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Answer 1

adding to stormwild's answer in case you have only the .Net Core Runtime installed you will receive the following output from dotnet --info

>PS C:\Users\Administrator> dotnet --info
>
>Host (useful for support):
>  Version: 2.2.3
>  Commit:  6b8ad509b6 
>
>.NET Core SDKs installed:
>  No SDKs were found.
>
>.NET Core runtimes installed:
>  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.2.3 [C:\Program 
>Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]