Why does this matter? It means a financial trading app written in 2010 can now be upgraded to run at speeds comparable to modern web apps, utilizing the new runtime’s performance optimizations (like dynamic PGO and span-based memory management), all without rewriting a single line of the UI code.
However, the interesting twist is the interoperability. A developer can write a desktop application in .NET 6 that hosts a web view (using WebView2), communicates with cloud services via gRPC, and renders 3D graphics via DirectX—all within the same process. The Desktop Runtime essentially turns a Windows application into a hybrid vehicle, capable of behaving like a local native app and a web client simultaneously. net 6 desktop runtime