>>>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 7:12 PM Daniel Sahlberg
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Den tis 31 mars 2026 kl 18:03 skrev Timofei Zhakov <[email protected]>:
...
>>>>>> I personally think that using anything besides C could potentially be
>>>>>> bad for cross-platformability (is this a word?). It's not guaranteed
>>>>>> that the platform that we are being run on has a Python interpreter
>>>>>> which is especially common on Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cross-platformability works for me!
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't remember if I added Python manually on my main computer but at
>>>>> least it wasn't a big effort (possibly it is a Windows Store app). I
>>>>> don't think Python would be a major blocker for any reasonably modern
>>>>> Windows machine.
Well, it being easily available is really not enough I'm afraid.
Python isn't present by default on Windows (and .py files are not
executable, you need a .bat wrapper or something). Requiring users to
install an extra tool / interpreter will be ignored by 99% of Windows
users ("nevermind, if this extra optional tool requires an extra
package, I'll just ignore it; don't care").
Ask some of your colleagues that work on Windows as their main
platform (if any) whether they have Python installed. Unless they
already have it for some specific dev tooling (or if it's the stack
they develop in), I'm betting most won't have it.
--
Johan
