It's almost certain they'll offer the ability to publish a self-contained binary or split from dependencies since that's a feature of .Net Core 3 today. The Mon

It's almost certain they'll offer the ability to publish a self-contained binary or split from dependencies since that's a feature of .Net Core 3 today. The Mono-based projects may not, but I'd expect them to someday replace what Mono targets with .Net Core. That's just a ways out and otherwise inconsequential to the end-user using the .Net 5 API.