[Smaug123]

.NET AOT really is not designed for deployment, in my experience - for example, the compilation is very hard to do in Nix-land, because a critical part of the compilation is to download a compiler from NuGet at build-time. It's archetypical of the thousand ways that .NET drives me nuts in general.

[mtmk]

It's intended for 'cloud-native' deployments, as I understand it, so I concur that it's quite disappointing. The concept of downloading compilers via NuGet doesn't sit well with me either. However, I've observed performance enhancements in applications compiled AOT, and I remain optimistic that future versions of .NET will bring further improvements.