[yndoendo]

That is one of the reasons I like GO language. Single executable, which makes tooling easier for others to use. My alternative method is using single executable packaged with NSIS that extracts everything to a temp directory before running.

Sorry, Window Registry is a cornucopia of inconsistency and poor design. Gnome's Registry is well designed, comparatively. Key descriptions, value options with limitations and which is the default is a quality User Interface design. Just look at the Windows group policy to registry mappings, they are all over the place for the same logic layout with double negatives for keys.

[djfobbz]

Yeah, that's why Go is a solid win - single binary, no installer headaches, just build and run. Rust's powerful but comes with build complexity and dependency juggling. Go keeps it clean, fast, and dead simple to deploy.

[airstrike]

Obligatory comment saying you can do the same in Rust

[eptcyka]

I can’t target msvc or aarch-64-apple-* and compile a binary on Linux, without resorting to significant amounts of rectal dentistry.

[jeroenhd]

I've built .exes for Windows just fine on Linux. I don't know about Apple stuff, though, I don't think there's any built-in Linux tooling to submit an executable for Apple's signature scheme.

[iknowstuff]

Can’t you just replace the “cargo” command with “cross”

    cross build —-target=…

https://github.com/cross-rs/cross

[demurgos]

Cross-building for Apple is possible, but it's far from smooth with many steps that you have to figure out by yourself unfortunately.

[cooljacob204]

I use this which seems to work well for my projects. Particularly their docker image.

https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild

[delusional]

You can in fact also do it in C

[IshKebab]

It's not quite as seamless as in Go to be fair. But it does mean you can write Rust instead of Go.

[p_ing]

And .NET