Top 8 nativeaot Open-Source Projects

MOOS

11 1,011 4.8 C#

C# x64 operating system programming with the .NET native ahead-of-time compilation technology.

Project mention: Building a bare-metal bootable game for Raspberry Pi in C# | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-11

https://github.com/nifanfa/MOOS
I ran across this link-hopping through GitHub repos after reading the article. Might be what you were hoping for.

smolsharp

1 208 7.1 C#

🐜 Extremely small standalone C# executables using NativeAOT

Project mention: Smolsharp: Small standalone C# executables using NativeAOT | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-05

InfluxDB

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WDK.NET

1 62 10.0 C#

Windows Kernel Driver Development in C# with Windows Driver Kit (WDK)
RdXmlLibrary

2 45 2.7 C#

Library of RD.xml files for NativeAOT
SqlMarshal

3 44 3.2 C#

Generates data access using stored procedures
AvaloniaAOT

1 41 8.1 C#

Avalonia Native AOT Templete. Smaller size, lower memory usage and faster startup speed.

Project mention: .NET 8 – .NET Blog | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-14

It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.
Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.
[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)

SeeSharpSnake

1 19 0.0 C#

Self-contained C# game in 8 kB
SaaSHub

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ManagedCorProfiler

1 15 7.6 C#

Prototype NET (CLR) Profiler written in C#

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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