[wolf550e]

Implementing an ACME client in python using pyca/cryptography (or in Go) would be fine, but why do it in C++ ?

[mr_toad]

Not everyone wants to deal with maintaining Python and untold dependencies on their web server. A C++ binary often has no additional dependencies, and even if it does they’ll be dealt with by the OS package manager.

[wolf550e]

I think uv[1] basically solved this problem for python scripts. Go creates statically linked executables that are easy to deploy.

1 - https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/

[fireflash38]

Docker/podman?

[dmitrygr]

Not everyone wants to spin up a multi-GB container for when a 80KB C++ binary would do...