Is there any future?

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I agree that developing using .NET is a much faster and easier task than playing with C++ pointers and manual memory management. But that comes at a cost. I've ported some of my projects from C++ to C#, but I've noticed a huge performance hit, even with Ngen'ed .NET executables.
CLR as a library is a nice OO framework but I hate the VM/JIT idea. Consider how nice would be if CLR was a statically linked lib similar to MFC and C# a true native compiler able to compile and link true Win32/64 PE executables.