Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
by anaisbetts on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:31AM
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Do you know of any production GUI applications that are literally a single-file EXE and aren't like, small utilities? There's just no reason to try to pack everything into a single file, Go-style. The self-contained publish (which is literally a single flag) is a quite reasonable result - a directory of files that are completely sufficient to run your app on any Windows computer, without any dependencies to install.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
by mwcampbell on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:34PM
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> Do you know of any production GUI applications that are literally a single-file EXE and aren't like, small utilities?
The old Delphi-based version of Skype fell into that category. Thinking of that example, I can understand why some people think modern software is decadent.