About a decade back I had to write this goofy little custom client-server deal. I hadn't done Visual Basic since 6, but I thought I'd give the client a go in V

About a decade back I had to write this goofy little custom client-server deal. I hadn't done Visual Basic since 6, but I thought I'd give the client a go in VB.NET, using whatever we had at the time. Aside from feeling like a chimpanzee dropped into the cockpit of a F-22 at the IDE (which kept doing things), the people who wanted the project were fairly annoyed that I couldn't figure out how to smash everything down into a single .exe. I ended up being so annoyed by the experience I wrote the server backend in Python and trying out the Python "compilers" for the next client. When you have something that is going to be scattered across maybe ten or twenty machines tops for a small project, for whatever reason, people just like the .exe and I can't say I blame them.