Likewise, .NET has had NGEN since day one even if with limitations, and after several detours in AOT approaches, NativeAOT is in the package and cross platform, thus also a moot point in 2026.
But again, they aren't cool for the kids today.
And yes, both languages are considered "not cool" since they lean heavily into code structuring that the industry has largely moved past.
I don't see what Python has to do with anything.
In fact both languages conveniently map to COM object model, and Microsoft is putting that to good effect.
Than we have Swift and Kotlin, plenty of OOP on those Apple and Google frameworks.
Zig, Odin, remain to be seen how industry relevant they will be, and yet examples of structs with function pointers abound among their projects, C OOP style.
So....
Usually only looked in high regard when the content supports the message, proudly ignored otherwise.
AOT .NET is an official first party distribution target that in my experience is on par with building a Go binary
Don't knock it till you try it
And I do still think there is an advantage for this kind of tooling to choose languages that are designed to compile to a native binary. At best Java and C# are equivalent to Go and Rust here, maybe they are less "cool" but I don't see any reason why this rewrite would be better if it were to Java than Rust.