[mmastrac]

The one thing everyone here is missing so far is that it's a Rust binary, distributed on PyPi. That's brilliant.

[simonw]

I wrote a bit about this pattern here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/23/bundling-binary-tools-...

[samwillis]

I’m all in on using PyPI for binary distribution. Couple that with Python Venv and you have a brilliant system for per project dependancies.

I created this project for distributing Node via PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/nodejs-bin/

[WHATDOESIT]

Why not rather distribute Python as NPM dependency?

[einpoklum]

You can get a statically-linked binary release from GitHub which depends on nothing (I think).

[jonahx]

Can you explain the advantages of this vs cargo?

[houqp]

Most users already have pip installed, so they won't need to install a rust toolchain.

[proto_lambda]

cargo is not a binary distribution.