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Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by jwxz on Sunday May 17, 2026 @06:48AM (#48167748)
I didn't see anyone mention this, but I think having a single binary is much nicer than having a JS (or Python) program sprawled all over your system.
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Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by ink-splatters on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:21AM (#48168266)
Having single binary output is completely different problem and is solved for both Python and typescript (bun supports the later).
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Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by crabmusket on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:53AM (#48168495)
Node and Deno can also bundle apps into a single executable.
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Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by jwxz on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:03AM (#48176344)
That's true, but it's not quite the same thing. The single binary you're referring to is the interpreter and source code packaged together (at least for TS/JS).

If you install too many of these "single binaries" then at some point you would be better off just having a single interpreter and using npm/pip.

By contrast the Rust binary only contains the machine code for this program and can be directly executed.

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