Kickoff: A Cross-Platform Native Launcher
summary
Kickoff produces a tiny, cross-platform native launcher that boots bundled runtimes by appending a JSON manifest to a prebuilt Rust binary; the launcher embeds JSON manifest in runtime binary and then reads itself and performs an execv to launch bundled interpreter. It targets ELF/Mach-O/PE formats so no cross-compiler per ruleset is required, provides a CLI that constructs the “sandwich” launcher, and currently lacks musl-built Linux runtimes and FreeBSD support but works for typical Linux/macOS/Windows use cases.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Python app distribution
- 3:53Native binary launchers
- 5:16Alternatives to cross-compilation
- 7:01Kickoff solution
- 8:48Kickoff CLI
- 9:31Next steps
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