For several years now, I wonder if it will ever happen.
replyWell, this is at least an update from earlier this month with a clear roadmap of how they're going to get there. There's hope!
replyOne annoying piece of Unity's CoreCLR plan is there is no plan to upgrade IL2CPP (Unity's AOT compiler) to use a better garbage collector. It will continue to use Boehm GC, which is so much worse for games.
replyWhy wouldn't they use the GC that comes with the dotnet AOT runtime?
replyProbably because the AOT runtime doesn't run on game consoles, straight out of the box.
replyCapcom has their own fork of .NET for the Playstation, for example.
I don't know what kind of GC they implemented.
They just haven't announced any plans to do so yet. They might one day.
replyThey will not be using .NET AOT probably ever though. Unity's AOT basically supports full C# (reflection etc) while .NET opted to restrict it and lean more on generated code.