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To be fair, Python programs aren't really designed to be compiled into a single executable. They are designed to be run through an interpreter. Therefore, multi-target compiling isn't really something the core developers focus on. The fact that you were unable to compile for multiple sources is more a failing of whatever third-party tool you were using.

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Makes perfect sense, yes. And that's what I use Python for 99% of the time.

I just thought it was interesting quite how hard it turned out to be! As someone who's usually on the games/VR side of things, I may have taken some of the magic that Unity, for example, uses to compile to all sorts of platforms for granted.

If your into building games and want a language that can easily cross-compile to multiple platforms, you may want to take a look at Nim: https://nim-lang.org. You'll get better performance than with Python as well. It's definitely a little less intuitive than Unity although.

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