Hilariously, the Microsoft SQL Client is the primary blocker for AOT for most potential usecases.
Want fast startup for an Azure Function talking to Azure SQL Database? Hah… no.
In all seriousness, that one dependency is the chain around the ankle of modern .NET because it’s not even fully async capable! It’s had critical performance regression bugs open for years.
Microsoft’s best engineers are busy partying in the AI pool and forgot about drudgery like “make the basics components work”.
