1. Salesforce Functions allow you to extend Salesforce business logic using industry-standard programming languages within the Salesforce trust boundary.
2. You can use open-source or third-party frameworks and your team can use their preferred language and tools to develop Salesforce solutions.
3. Functions work seamlessly with your existing org resources and authenticate at run-time, making it easy to stay on the Salesforce Platform.
4. Functions allow you to perform compute-heavy tasks that would be difficult or impossible to do in your org and automatically scale with load.
5. Functions are deployed to a separate secure infrastructure managed by Salesforce and don't run in your org's infrastructure. You develop and test functions in isolated testing and production "spaces".
6. Functions are contained in a functions directory of a Salesforce DX project and are deployed to a Salesforce compute environment.
7. Functions are continuously updated to ensure a secure compute environment and available in different regions.
8.They cannot be packaged yet.