.NET versions are not fully backwards compatible. Would you like every Windows install to ship with over ten versions of the .NET runtime?

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jitl an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We would like it to be good. Whichever way to achieve goodness - either be backwards compat, or ship all the stable versions, I don't care but the current situation is silly. Apple gets flack for this and that, but their UI toolkit situation is lightyears ahead; you just pick the OS version you want to target in your app build settings and it will work that way for everyone.

	▲	Rohansi 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		100 MB per runtime, for everyone, and the majority of them are out of support. Is that really the good option? Why not the option the author dismissed: a 9 MB AOT-compiled executable which doesn't need a separate runtime?

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biorach an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes?