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Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by righthand on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:06AM (#45592802)
Rust produces a single binary. Developers appreciate this when shipping an app. For Python based apps you usually need your user to have Python installed and then ship a bunch of Python files with interop to some non-Python UI library. So you probably need to ship the UI library as a dependency too.

Or you can just build it in Rust and learn what .unwrap() does.

Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by az09mugen on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:19PM (#45596518)
I don't say it is best, but there are solutions like pyinstaller [0] to produce a binary from python code.

[0] https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/

Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by righthand on Thursday October 16, 2025 @01:52PM (#45608531)
This just obfuscates the issue not actually fixes it. This is 1 binary + all the previously mentioned files.