However, it comes with the baggage of .NET Core, which is a rather big thing. And it's growing, as Microsoft is apparently porting over everything from the older, non-cross-platform .NET stuff. For one, .NET Core includes the CLR/CIL, i.e. the JIT VM and cross-language integration, which I'm not interested in at all; I just want an AOT compiler. The AOT support seems like a fairly recent addition, and it's unclear to me how optimized it is or how well-supported it is compared to the older CLR-based toolchain. As a standard library, CoreFX seems rather large, and contains things like GUI and SQL Server support, for some reason.
In short, .NET Core seems like something you'd love only if you were already heavily invested in Microsoft's tech stack. I'm not interested in it myself.
