[chrismorgan]

… and I proudly say that I saved another generation from having to wrangle with NSIS, and all the copying and pasting of obscure and buggy code that was endemic, by writing the PortableApps.com Launcher!

(I’d probably write the PortableApps.com Launcher in Rust these days, though you’d have to be careful to avoid things like bringing in Unicode tables, and put more effort than usual into shrinking things. Rust has been my favourite language since 2014 now. But I would consider Zig seriously too, though I’m not familiar with it or its Windows API interop. But as with almost all of the developers connected with the PortableApps.com project, once I got a bit older I seldom or never needed it, having a computer of my own, and so drifted away at last.)

[exikyut]

> I’m not familiar with [Zig] or its Windows API interop

Incidentally dealing with very interesting complexity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29610302 (from a couple days ago)

The issue honestly reads like a Rust-hustle level of "we will figure these issues out correctly". Really cool to watch from the sidelines.

[JohnTHaller]

Thank you for the work you did for us over the years, Chris. I hope life is treating you well!