Yes that is possible, you can produce an .exe which contains your application's assemblies but relies on the appropriate .NET runtime being present on the user's computer. You can also build a .exe which has the .NET runtime bundled, but it can be quite big. I made a simple program that wrote "Hello World" to the console [1] and it was between 46-78MB: https://blog.mclemon.org/no-this-is-what-peak-hello-world-lo...
Wow! Yeah indeed there's a few impractical steps required to go all the way to 8kb, but trimming down to a couple of MB is definitely a huge improvement. I somehow never looked into CoreRT before, I'm gonna need to do so. Thanks for sharing this!
