Introduction to Native (Ahead of Time) Compilation in Dotnet | DotNet 2021

Microsoft keeps working in his AOT Native .NET runtime, optimized for ahead of time compilation. A feature that offers great benefits for many critical apps. Native compiled apps start-up is faster since they execute already compiled code in a single file! AOT enables some scenarios like:

Copying a single file executable from one machine and run on another (of the same kind) without installing a .NET runtime.
Creating and running a docker image that contains a single file executable (e.g. just one file in addition to Ubuntu).
Compiling .NET managed libraries into shared or static libraries that can be consumed from other languages without COM or library wrappers. (Like C++ or Rust)
Smaller compilation output sizes.

During this session you're going to learn:

The main differences, benefits and drawbacks between Just-In-Time compilation and Ahead-Of-Time compilation.
The startup and performance gains that AOT can bring us
How to compile our dotnet applications (console, webapps) into native code in Linux and Windows.
Interoping with .NET natively compiled libraries to be consumed by other languages (Demos with Rust).

Speaker: Carlos Landeras - General Manager at Plain Concepts
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