logoalt Hacker News

tomkarhotoday at 3:47 PM1 replyview on HN

.NET does have flags to include the necessary dependencies with the executable these days so you can just run the .exe and don't need to install .net on the host machine. Granted that does increase the size of the app (not to mention adding shitton of dll's if you don't build as single executable) but this at least is a solved problem.


Replies

tgtweaktoday at 5:42 PM

They do now, after .net core and several other iterations. You'll also be shipping a huge executable compared to a clr linked .net app (which can be surprisingly small).