wakatime-cli VS cosmopolitan

None of those use the recommended wakatime-cli, which would solve most of these issues. You're getting Linux instead of Windows sometimes because the plugin's User-Agent header isn't consistent when sending heartbeats to the WakaTime API, sometimes using the default Unity header and sometimes using a custom header.

Search for the WakTime extension in your IDEs extension's marketplace or follow the Official Plugins Docs

WakaTime tracks programming activity. The heavy lifting is done by the external WakaTime CLI, so the extension itself must be super lightweight right?

Wakapi is a Wakatime compatible open-source backend for collecting and visualizing coding statistics. It can be self-hosted fairly easily be running the provided Docker image. The compatibility with Wakatime is a big bonus since Wakatime provides many plugins for data collection from your favorite IDE or text editor. I'm pretty sure you can find an integration for your most loved tool here. Let's see how one can run Wakapi with Docker.

What's the recommended way to prevent my open source program from being flagged as false-positive malware on every release? [0] It also seems to be preventing the open source vscode plugin from reading a necessary config file in the user's home directory. If it's not possible to prevent the false-positives is there some way to detect if reading a file fails because of Defender vs. other reasons, like file not exists?

[0] https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/issues/660

I really tried to use PyInstaller and Nuitka to deploy a Python command line [1] to Windows, Mac, and Linux users. We couldn't get around some system dependencies like OpenSSL needing to be available and not broken on user machines. We ended up re-writing the whole program from Python into Go [2].

Using Go solved so many long-tail bugs for us and just simplified the whole process of shipping code to user machines.

[1] https://github.com/wakatime/legacy-python-cli

[2] https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli

Fixed with https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli/commit/56a85c90fd824c8f930f2b3a9f104872e48d6b01.

The reality is a bit different, the work on Python 3.6 was checked into the Cosmopolitan repo and I have been able to use it for production workloads that are in pure python. [0]

As Cosmopolitan Libc has evolved, it has been possible to compile more software without modifications, and that includes latest Python through a project called superconfigure[1].

Last person who tried to reproduce it from scratch did it last week (granted it too them a few days of solid work) but in the end they ended with a portable binary with Python 3.11.9, brotli, ssl and asyncio for their work related project.[2]

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party...

Cosmopolitan https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan and https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html

Some genius realized that you can actually embed valid win32 programs inside valid posix shell scripts, and found a way to make a C cross-platform solution out of it, meaning that you can write C programs that compile to a single executable that will run on (quoting the site) Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS

It all started from this post.

For this .args file, put one argument per line. This will run on start. You can use `/zip/mydepencency.anything` to read from files, but if you have an executable dependency you'll need to extract it first.

You can do this with any software you can compile with comsocc, by adding a call to LoadZipArgs[1] in the main function.

It'seasy to get started, your ideas will branch out as soon as you start playing with it.

[1]: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/args/a...

FWIW there is ongoing work with good progress to add websocket support to redbean (https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/967)

Check out this comment by jart (cosmpolitan author) here: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/766#issuecomment...

it might help but not sure how comprehensive it is! would it be a bad idea for you to check out the source code of other popular emulators (maybe iTerm 2^0) ?

0: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agnachman%2FiTerm2%20ansi&...

The binary was compiled with Cosmopolitan Libc [0], and therefore the binary will execute natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and bare metal (BIOS boot).

I would call that portable.

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

will go on my "to try" list where i already have cosmopolitan [2]. my last setup (windows) was shiv + wine + nsis (used that as pyinstaller had some issues)[2]

[1] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/141#issuecomment...