[yakz]

Maybe some other runtimes do this or it has been changed, but in the past self-contained singe-file .NET deployment just meant that it rolled all the files up during publishing and when you run it, it extracted them to a folder. Not really like a single statically linked executable.

[webprofusion]

You can indeed produce a compiled native executable with minimal bloat: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

[vips7L]

It hasn't done that in years.