http://www.purebasic.com
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/
Funny, it was something very simple thing, but someone in the office did not want to install some prerequisit program to his machine. It had to be included in the executable. (The script eased his daily work.)but it is noooot for desktop apps.
No it doesn't, at least if you do some neat optimizations and remove unneeded libraries with Nuitka.NicTheQuick wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 3:06 pm Well, you can not compare a language that gets compiled into an executable with a script language that needs a VM. Also regular expressions are one of the included libraries of Python. So if you use it or not, it has always the same size. And I don't know anybody who compiles Python into an executable. Maybe some Windows guys do weird things like that. On Linux I never saw that. It compiles itself into bytecode but that's all.
I know that these things exist but I never saw an actual app using it. And I am working with Python since 15 years or so.Quin wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 3:31 pmNo it doesn't, at least if you do some neat optimizations and remove unneeded libraries with Nuitka.NicTheQuick wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 3:06 pm Well, you can not compare a language that gets compiled into an executable with a script language that needs a VM. Also regular expressions are one of the included libraries of Python. So if you use it or not, it has always the same size. And I don't know anybody who compiles Python into an executable. Maybe some Windows guys do weird things like that. On Linux I never saw that. It compiles itself into bytecode but that's all.
You asked who's compiling python to binaries? Well:
https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller
https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe
https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka
https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze
https://github.com/ronaldoussoren/py2app
https://github.com/beeware/briefcase
and probably more...
