Eli Zaretskii writes that absent the discovery of any last minute blockers, native compilation will be merged into master this weekend. A problem with symlinks prevented the merging last weekend. At this point there are no more issues known so the merge can proceed.
On the one hand, it seems like it’s been a long slog. On the other, it’s amazing how fast things have come together. Once it’s widely available, this feature will make all our lives better and easier. Many many thanks to Andrea, Eli, and everyone else who’s worked on this.