I’ve looked at things like tauri and the problem is always Windows. In general if you have a broadly distributed Windows app you must bundle or statically link everything. Even chained dependency installers don’t work since you have to keep them up to date, and fetching them online doesn’t work because it will fail in weird environments with filtered Internet access. All Windows installers must contain a microcosm of the entire universe.

I suppose if you could restrict to only Windows 11 it might help but there is still a ton of Windows 10 (and even 7!) out there. Does Windows 11 finally bundle Microsoft’s own standard C libraries?