On 29 May 2015 00:52, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1. The new embeddable Python distribution for Windows is a great step > forward for this. It's not single-file, but it's easy to produce a > single-directory self-contained application with it. I don't know if > there's anything equivalent for Linux/OSX - maybe it's something we > should look at for them as well (although the whole "static binaries" > concept seems to be fairly frowned on in the Unix world, from what > I've seen).
Correct - in the absence of the capacity to rebuild and redeploy the world at the click of a button, widespread deployment of static binaries poses an appallingly high security risk. It isn't an accident that Linux container orchestration is co-evolving with Linux container formats. Those efforts are mostly focused on network services & GUI applications, though. For portable console applications, Go is still one of the nicest options currently available, as the relatively limited ability to interoperate with the system provided C/C++ libraries makes it much harder to create dependencies between the app and the platform. It's similar to Java in that respect, but without the dependency on a large language runtime like the JVM. In that vein, it might be interesting to see what could be done with MicroPython in terms of providing a lightweight portable Python runtime without CPython's extensive integration with the underlying OS. Cheers, Nick.
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