Probably -- I don't care too much about the windows store, I'm more excited about being able to write C# code that doesn't require a VM. Not that there's anything /wrong/ with the CLR, but one thing I miss about C++ when I'm not writing it is self contained programs where it's just a small exe without a bunch of huge dependencies.
The redistributable is huge but not required. You can statically link the C runtime. That option has never been available for C#, and IMHO it's the single biggest reason C# failed to replace C++ for Windows client development.
Exactly. The redist is potentially annoying, but for my own projects I tend to statically link almost everything. It's not really a size thing, it's more of a "I don't want to bug my potential users to have to install a bunch of system altering things" viewpoint.
