Chapter 3. Features and benefits

• Runtime and framework libraries

  .NET consists of the runtime and the framework libraries as well as compilers, build tools, tools to fetch NuGet packages, and a command-line interface to tie everything together. Benefits include:

  • Automatic memory management
  • Type safety
  • Delegates and lambdas
  • Generic types
  • Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
  • Async programming
  • Native interoperability
  • Source generators

• .NET 6.0 supports developing applications using ASP.NET Core 6.0 and EF Core 6.0, which bring benefits such as:

  • Lightweight and modular HTTP request pipeline
  • Ability to host on a web server or self-host in your own process
  • Built on .NET, which supports true side-by-side app versioning
  • Integrated support for creating and using NuGet packages
  • Single aligned web stack for web UI and web APIs
  • Cloud-ready environment-based configuration
  • Built-in support for dependency injection
  • Tools that simplify modern web development

Support for 64-bit Arm (aarch 64), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x)

• .NET 6.0 introduces support for 64-bit Arm running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
• .NET 6.0 introduces support for IBM Z and LinuxONE running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 or later.

• Support for C# 10
• Support for F# 6
• Single-file source programs
• Performance improvements in base libraries, GC and JIT
• Source-generators for logging and JSON
• Better diagnostics with dotnet-monitor