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Can't the CLR tools just output native binaries now?



Can it? That’s awesome.

Mostly these days I’m only aware of C# when it inconveniences me.


It even produces smaller binaries than Go and the size scales much better as the codebase grows too. dotnet has come a long way since the olden days of .net framework.

The reasons stated on github doesn't seem to be convincing imo.

- platform support

NativeAOT supports all platforms, the only one missing is Android which is marked experimental, but since they'd be treated as a "1st party" customer since they're both MS projects, this could be easily expedited. Even WASM is supported in NativeAOT using the LLVM toolchain and is often compared to perform better than Go's WASM target which doesn't use LLVM

- Usage of functions and structs

C# supports this, and you even have better control on layout and performance in this regard. Functions can easily be ported as static functions on static classes. They could even use F# which is even closer to Typescript if they wanted a more direct port as both languages compile to IL for NativeAOT.

There must be more reasons as to why it didn't choose C# in this regard, likely non-technical related. A missed opportunity imo.




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