Not quite right. Mono has the lovely mkbundle tool which can do what the poster wants: AOT your intermediate/byte code and build a statically linked executable

Not quite right. Mono has the lovely mkbundle tool which can do what the poster wants: AOT your intermediate/byte code and build a statically linked executable containing your app, the runtime, and all your deps (except for key system dynamic libraries like libc or Security.framework, similar to how go works). No restrictions on reflection, unlike .NET Native (which has slightly different design goals). I've used it many times for just this reason with great results. Plus, the runtime was re-licensed to MIT/X11.