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self contained executables simply bundles the libraries, but still requires a JIT compilation to execute.

The description of bflat is what you are looking for, and it's the second section of the readme.

bflat implements a form of ahead-of-time compilation.

This is closer to .net native conceptually, but that was only a UWP abomination.

edit: replies have pointed out this is actually closer to ReadyToRun, a neat feature I was not aware of.

replied with this on another post, but you can add `-p:PublishReadyToRun=true` to your `dotnet publish` command to do AOT. it blows up your binary in size, but pretty much gives your warmed up code from the start.

it doesn't fully AOT your app and worse it doesn't produce a native static executable

it runs few tier for JIT, it still ship with IL and the JIT

don't advertise ReadyToRun as "hey we got AOT at home, says Microsoft salesman"

because all it does is makes me want to use Go instead, it feels and sounds bloaty

What about with ReadyToRun and single file?

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