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> Can .NET deploy a static binary nowadays?

You can bundle everything in a single file but that file contains the runtime, so even small Hello World apps are 50MB+ last I checked, though there have been some improvements recently with trimming and AOT is hopefully coming next year with .NET 7.

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Yeah, starts closer to 12MB for a trimmed console app in .NET 6. It works really well (I've been distributing one for a few months now).

Very cool, thanks for answering. Yeah I understand they'd have to bundle the runtime so that makes sense. Glad to know they're working on improving that use case as well.

They're really working on reducing the compiled (app + framework) size in order to make the WASM target in browsers more viable for Blazor.

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