[leeman2016]

Excited about the smaller standalone binary (native AoT) .NET 8 can generate to compete with the likes of Go

[anotherhue]

Better than go, more like Graal

[geodel]

How is Graal better. Half of the Java ecosystem wouldn't work with Graal.

[pjmlp]

Just like with Native AOT, as it only supports CLI, dynamic libraries with C ABI, and a special flavour of ASP.NET with minimal APIs introduced now in .NET 8.

Mono AOT supports a bit more, with focus on iOS and Android workloads.

None of them work with GUI frameworks or classical ASP.NET applications.

[neonsunset]

MAUI iOS can also be targeted by NativeAOT[0] and Avalonia has been proven to work with it as well.

Also, you can statically link NativeAOT libraries into existing C/C++/Rust/etc. code, and you can statically link existing static libraries into NativeAOT binaries[1].

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-8-performance-i...

[1] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

[pjmlp]

MAUI iOS with NativeAOT is experimental, and is still only of target out of many.

Avalonia is great, however the biggest issue is with Microsoft own tech, as many of us are well aware, many companies are Microsoft shops and only care about what is in the Visual Studio box.

There, not only is Native AOT behind .NET Native, there is no plan to ever support AOT in Forms and WPF projects.

On the libraries I stand corrected regarding static linking.

[svick]

Half of the .Net ecosystem doesn't work with AOT either.

[Smaug123]

(Corrective upvote from me. Pretty much any use of reflection dooms you, and reflection is very common.)