IIRC a big issue with PyInstaller is that the built executables are really self-extracting archives, which have to write many files to disk before they can run. Compared to a real compiled executable, it’s slow and inelegant.
Unfortunately high-quality bundling into executables just isn’t a focus of Python (nor of any other high-level language). Personally, I’ve gone back to C++ for building command-line apps - as a developer I’d much rather be writing Python, but that’s no good if I can’t actually deliver software to users.
Unfortunately high-quality bundling into executables just isn’t a focus of Python (nor of any other high-level language). Personally, I’ve gone back to C++ for building command-line apps - as a developer I’d much rather be writing Python, but that’s no good if I can’t actually deliver software to users.