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Matt Layman

That's an interesting experience. One of the details of Shiv that I skipped over (because the article was already long enough) is that Shiv extracts the zipapp into a directory like ~/.shiv. This helps get around issues with some packages that do things like depend on __file__.

Nim looks neat. I haven't used it before.