Next version of Microsoft’s software development platform brings improvements for JIT compilation, WebAssembly, C#, and F#.

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.NET 11 Preview 1 introduces JIT compiler improvements for better startup performance and optimization, CoreCLR support for WebAssembly (migrating from Mono runtime), and Zstandard compression for faster data handling. C# 15 adds collection expression arguments and extended layout support, while F# 11 enables parallel compilation by default and removes legacy ML compatibility features. Additional updates include runtime async infrastructure, CoreCLR as default for Android Release builds, enhanced CLI commands, Blazor's EnvironmentBoundary component, and XAML source generation as default for .NET MAUI applications.

Microsoft unveils first preview of .NET 11

<p>They really need to take a page from Apple on their naming conventions.  For the next release they should call it .NET 16 along with C# 16.  Just to keep things straight.</p>
