The fact that it can point to unmanaged memory is a benefit for me. Just last week I’ve been porting some performance critical code to C++\CLI and this will allow me to use a span of of object instead of having to pin arrays. One other application is that it is now possible to implement a memory pool using a contiguous piece of memory and only returning slices of it, previously you would have to have multiple instances of a fixed size array in the pool.
