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Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by mrcsharp on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:32AM (#45897312)
C# has AOT compilation which creates a single, native binary. This has gotten so much better with .NET 10 and since the introduction of source generators to deal with reflection issues.

Also, check out nanoFramework for a .NET runtime that can run on MCUs like the ESP32 [1]

[1] https://github.com/nanoframework/Home

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Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by Quothling on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @07:04PM (#45908697)
Cool, I didn't know this. I see it's been a thing since .NET 8, but it also looks like something that is perhaps mostly meant for hobby projects? Or maybe I'm getting that wrong.
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Re:.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by ... by mrcsharp on Thursday November 13, 2025 @06:46AM (#45913753)
Definitely started that way for me. It was cool to see a console app written in C# be compiled straight to native and run. Since then, a lot of work has been done to make AOT viable for more workloads.

I wouldn't use it for an MVC application yet because a lot of features won't work but there are plenty of other areas that are using it now and one of the biggest examples is Avalonia apps compiling to native.

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