Leave the CLR behind is what Windows team tried to do with UWP and .NET Native, basically the original idea of .NET as Ext-VOS when it was going to be based on

Leave the CLR behind is what Windows team tried to do with UWP and .NET Native, basically the original idea of .NET as Ext-VOS when it was going to be based on COM. https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-everything-old-is-new-again https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt... While the idea was interesting for many of us, Microsoft really failed fumbled the delivery and the CLR is here to stay. Also it would never going to fly as cross platform technology, given its design as an evolution of COM infrastructure.