If your memory of start up times is based on .NET Framework or Mono, then things have come a very long way since .NET Core onwards. I’ve never experienced any

If your memory of start up times is based on .NET Framework or Mono, then things have come a very long way since .NET Core onwards. I’ve never experienced any startup time delays at all with recent .NET development, even when running on underpowered cloud VMs. Nothing that would have any tangible real world effect anyway. There are also lots of optimisations available now and much more work is being done to reduce binary sizes, AOT etc