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Would’ve written a Golang program and spit-out a binary for everyone to execute on any machine.
No dependency problems, it’s portable, it’s deterministic — all that you need. Everything is packed in that binary, dependencies, your core logic.
You can create static binaries that bundle the python interpreter and dependencies.
It's the
onefileoption in pyinstaller: https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/usage.html#cmdoption-FYou can also do it with C. Or Csharp. Or many other programming languages. It's not a feature unique to Go, it's just that Go can only create static binaries.
not only, you can go ahead and run a Go program as is, without compiling as well 😆
TIL about the onefile, 10x for sharing, can you guarantee that runs everywhere?
go runworks by compiling the program to a temporary executable and then executing that.It seems to depend on glibc versions, if that's what you are asking. You can force it to be more static by using a static musl python or via other tools. Of course, a binary for Linux only runs on Linux and the same for Windows and Mac. But yeah.
Also it should be noted that go binaries that use C library dependencies are not truly standalone, often depending on glibc in similar ways. Of course, same as pyinstaller, you can use musl to make it more static.
You sweet summer child...