[rednb]

What you are looking for is called F#. You get native interop with C# and access to all .NET/C# libraries as a bonus. We use it as a daily driver for a complex B2B2C cloud platform.

[Sammi]

Does it not run in a VM?

[rednb]

Yes you are right, it does not properly support NativeAOT yet.

But it isn't a need for most use cases, unless you want to do mobile development and meet app store policies. But even then, mature F# frameworks like Fable transpile your F# code to React & Cie.

[christophilus]

It can be compiled, but that’s not the use case it was originally designed around, so it’s not quite as first class an experience as with Go or Rust.

[NetMageSCW]

You can embed the framework into the application so it is a single distributable.