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This is far more relevant and exciting This is way more exciting. https://twitter.com/MStrehovsky/status/1669502394827419648

> "A fully self-contained natively compiled C# Hello World, including GC and everything can be as small as ~440 kB."

.net classic framework is windows deprecated legacy, and really no new apps should be built on it.

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The resulting exe doesn't really "use" the framework in any way, other than relying on an implementation detail of the backing ucrt.dll library exposed as an unmanaged pinvoke (c# ffi) call.

Unless you're building an app relying on office/COM apis

Or a proper development experience for Windows Forms and WPF.

What's different about the development experience. In Visual Studio it doesn't make much of a difference if you're target framework or .Net 5+.

Designer is still buggy, the new out of process model makes it incompatible with existing component libraries, requiring a rewrite.

In many things, .NET Core/.NET 5+ is the Python 3 of .NET ecosystem.

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