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How to package Python apps with BeeWare Briefcase

August 12, 2020

Via: InfoWorld

Python falls short in a few areas. For instance, Python isn’t the fastest language around, but third-party libraries like NumPy let you work around that. Where Python is most deficient, though, is packaging. That is, Python lacks a consistent internal mechanism for generating a standalone binary from an application. Go and Rust do this. Why can’t Python?

It mostly comes down to Python not having a culture of such use cases until relatively recently in its history. And so, only relatively recently did third-party modules start showing up that allow Python apps to be packaged as standalone binaries.

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