[rcarmo]

I've been playing with the AoT compiler and it is decent, especially if you strip the binaries to get 10-20MB files.

Biggest hurdle for me (as a UNIX greybeard, Java survivor and occasional LISPer) is ramping up on idiosyncratic C# syntax and various generations of .NET libraries

But what little I've done in the past couple of months (with .NET 5) works OK in Linux, and the tooling (VS Code + Remote to have .NET on a remote VM at a safe distance from my Mac) suitably lightweight and hassle-free.

(full disclosure: I actually work at Microsoft these days but never developed for Windows alone - did mostly C++ and Java when I targeted it - and never did .NET before, as it only makes sense for me to use it now that I can target Linux)