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by neonsunset 748 days ago
No it’s not. Self-contained deploy has been a thing since .NET Core 2.1 (or earlier?), released 6 years ago. Either way, deploying .NET applications has been very easy regardless of deployment mode for as long as they were using Kestrel.

Today, it reached the point where .NET outperforms Go in publishing/packaging of AOT binaries as it can be statically linked together with native dependencies, metadata tables and pointer-heavy structures in the binary are dehydrated and compressed and the resulting binary uses standardized object and symbol format understood by all existing tooling that otherwise works with C, C++ and Rust.