C# AOT is performant, is easy to use and has a small footprint. (Less than a megabyte executable without trickery. I am sure one could get much smaller if someone put effort into it.)
Fair point. It's a relatively recent thing, though, and even with the reduced footprint I think it and the GC at least would still make its use difficult at best for some of C/C++'s remaining niches.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if it (and similar capabilities from Graal, etc.) grabbed yet more market share due to making those languages more viable where they historically had not been.
