The article's ambitious promise of an "Actually Portable" Python executable across diverse systems such as Windows and Linux ends up revealing a rather melancholic truth. What we encounter instead is a slow, underperforming proof of concept that passes merely a third of its tests.
Is this not, in some perverse way, reflective of our contemporary technological striving, where the ideal of universality often crumbles under the weight of practical limitations?
Are we not, in our pursuit of perfect tooling, always chasing a mirage? The reality, starkly exposed by these tools, might be that our pursuit is as flawed and fragmented as the tools themselves.
Is this not, in some perverse way, reflective of our contemporary technological striving, where the ideal of universality often crumbles under the weight of practical limitations?
Are we not, in our pursuit of perfect tooling, always chasing a mirage? The reality, starkly exposed by these tools, might be that our pursuit is as flawed and fragmented as the tools themselves.