Pradyun Gedam / is on Nostr

he/him. Probably trying to make refined sand do something useful.

Wearer of many hats in OSS spaces: CPython, pip, packaging, TOML, Furo, Sphinx extensions, Executable Books and more.

GitHub: https://github.com/pradyunsg
Website: https://pradyunsg.me

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2024-09-16 20:40:18

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> UV python uses python.org/downloads
Wait, no -- it does not. It uses python-build-standalone.

2024-09-09 19:23:16

@npub1zgm…dan3 Do you have automation for cross posting across different micro-blogging platforms?

2024-09-08 10:34:43

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Yea, single executable distribution is *great*.
Rust's achilles heel seems to be that it's using dependecies as additional source code, which leads to long compile times (coz you gotta compile all your dependencies + variants that come off of that in your code) as well as causing complications when using the build systems that expect a "source code -> reusable binary" relationship for each individual piece in that system (eg: the kind that Debian/Fedora have).

2024-09-08 10:34:43

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2024-09-08 08:13:54

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I find it easiest to describe this as "there is an executable that runs the code" vs "the code directly run on the underlying 'hardware'".
Standard caveats apply around "it's a property of the implementation", room for arguing about "code"/"run", and "There can be more software been the executable and the physical CPU", etc. :)

2024-08-20 20:04:41

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FWIW, they're not saying we can't do it. They're saying we're choosing not to do it in this case.
It feels like they want to pull this in other cases when as many people are not looking and they're not being scrutinised.