2026-05-21T20:07:27Z https://yabu.me Paul Moore https://yabu.me/npub16namardggju3sk47ndk89uy5u3a3mmdlkkj3uakw6sh9r89xqz7q8498m2 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/313/041/585/768/516/original/74e6ddae5f4a1e48.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/313/041/585/768/516/original/74e6ddae5f4a1e48.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9zelyhws77jnmrkut5hhwm6mhqcu8yz2w2zsv9xzhqls204uw8pgzyr20h05d4pztjxz6h6dkcuhsjnj8k80dh76628nkem2zu5vu5cqtcmjzkff In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8zy3dkxw5ehlr4fvv93ldvmxyvzr0mhajagnf480txc2nv5krf6cwyyz29'>nevent1q…yz29</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As a user, I don&#39;t care about build time deps. Why do you? Remember, in the use case I&#39;m talking about I don&#39;t want or need the distro to package the code.<br/><br/>But if you choose to package the app anyway, how is it different whether the code is in a dependency or part of the project itself? 2024-09-08T21:31:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8e8l62uvdkjeew6n9uzvtq8g2v6fa0s5jxknzcflga4qvempzxsqzyr20h05d4pztjxz6h6dkcuhsjnj8k80dh76628nkem2zu5vu5cqtcywds63 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst8erfuuecasa3mmuf7648rwxdghrvmrwx34hdlkd4vyhvsm044ec4skntn'>nevent1q…kntn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>IMO there are two very different use cases involved. For some things, I just want the program to be there and I&#39;m happy for my OS/distributor/package manager to deal with it. For other things *I* want to be in control. I don&#39;t want a packaged version, I want to get the version I want, when I want it.<br/><br/>It&#39;s for that second use case that single-file binaries are ideal. 2024-09-08T21:05:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd0zsluujexycdclar58k8huasts0kf8t0wxmh9l767f8sz527mxgzyr20h05d4pztjxz6h6dkcuhsjnj8k80dh76628nkem2zu5vu5cqtcykhdz0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxwkuxx2m3xstacfrznp670euygtnltxgjt4ej6fycfv9tzc589kcszffa8'>nevent1q…ffa8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thinking some more about it, my *real* point was that &#34;a single executable you can just download and run anywhere&#34; is the actual compelling argument for Rust. They deliver that by default, other languages require you to jump through varying levels of hoops to even get close to it. And yes, I know, static linking vs dynamic and security - but end users really only care about &#34;can I download and run it?&#34; 2024-09-08T10:22:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqujwkv9zyhhr3tljgknxlcu207qt2hhl55jwpl6yp34q3cwdjxgszyr20h05d4pztjxz6h6dkcuhsjnj8k80dh76628nkem2zu5vu5cqtcuwha0w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsret2hv7jl0tqvsjukr7zg7jher3zmu2awxmlq9rzk2772fd9e4uqntpvjy'>nevent1q…pvjy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Agreed, this is the killer advantage of *any* compiled language over one with a runtime. And to make it worse, Python is far from being the best runtime based language for app deployment :-( 2024-09-07T11:08:16Z