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This is very clever. I wonder if it could be adopted for Python C extensions (where possible) to make it easier to distribute cross-platform binary distributions. Of course it wouldn’t be suitable for gui toolkits, but I imagine that the majority of Python C-extensions could be handled.

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Cosmopolitan would actually be a great fit for Python extensions, since manylinux1 requires RHEL5 support and Cosmopolitan is probably the only modern C library that still supports it (glibc these days needs rhel8+). Maybe someone will figure out a way to compile a single-file library that's simultaneously a .dylib / .dll / .so just like how Actually Portable Executable does for programs.

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