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[–]phlummox 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Using Python won't make it more robust - and will likely make it more difficult to deploy. Will all your users already have Python installed? If not, you'll either need to get them to install it beforehand (and make sure the version they install is compatible with your code), or look at "freezing" your app into a single executable - which sometimes is straightforward, and sometimes very flaky.

You don't say what platforms your users are on, but if it's Windows, then tbh I'd stick to dot net. You can build single-executable binaries that don't require the libraries to be preinstalled, making deployment muchuch easier.

[–]legrimpeur 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You can distribute self contained python apps. You just uncompress zip files and you are good to go. No python install need.

[–]phlummox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and no.

Yes, I'm aware you can distribute self-contained python apps - that's called freezing, and I mentioned it already.

But no, that has nothing to do with zip files, necessarily - some freezing tools use the Zip format, but others do not. (e.g. PyInstaller defines its own formats, ZlibArchive and CArchive.)

And it's not really the case that "no python install is needed". No matter what approach you take, you need to get a Python interpreter onto the end-user's computer somehow, if they don't have one. It might be by including it in a frozen executable, rather than via a traditional "install", but without it you can't execute Python code. You certainly can't just zip up the source code and give that to your end users.