top | item 44072883 (no title) wolf550e | 9 months ago Implementing an ACME client in python using pyca/cryptography (or in Go) would be fine, but why do it in C++ ? discuss order hn newest mr_toad|9 months ago 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|9 months ago 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|9 months ago Docker/podman? load replies (1)
mr_toad|9 months ago 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|9 months ago 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|9 months ago Docker/podman? load replies (1)
wolf550e|9 months ago 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/
mr_toad|9 months ago
wolf550e|9 months ago
1 - https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/
fireflash38|9 months ago