does razor pages support aot?

Question

razor pages support AOT?

Answer 1

no.

for example, the System.Text.Json libraries only just got AOT support, and it requires the use of source generators only:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/system-text-json/source-generation?pivots=dotnet-8-0

other AOT restrictions that may cause issues:

• no dynamic assembly loading
• no runtime code generation (used by many libraries that use refection)
• only AOT compliant libraries supported
• reduced performance for Linq expressions
• no com support
• System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager not supported (use binding source generator)
• Newtonsoft Json not supported
• no C/C++ interop

the benefits of an AOT razor page app is not clear. but if supported, you would be limited in the type of applications you could write. Also they would probably be slower than the non AOT version.