Hmm, others are pointing towards PWAs, but to me this looks more like a way to "install" scripts (python, ruby, PHP, powershell etc).
I guess this is trying to open the Windows Store to more devs, giving them an option other than UWP - which is certainly a laudable notion. But I really wish the article was clearer about what the end goal is.
This actually sounds pretty cool... but I'm not sure who it's aimed at; scripts are typically for command line tools, not GUIs. And for those au fait with the command line, I'm not sure what the benefit is, beyond signing the package (which, technically, could already be done if you packaged your script in an MSI/MSIX installer).
There are plenty of GUI apps written in Python running on Linux using PyGtk or PySide. There's no reason why there couldn't be Python apps running on WinRT, especially since it can be projected very nicely onto Python.
I guess this is trying to open the Windows Store to more devs, giving them an option other than UWP - which is certainly a laudable notion. But I really wish the article was clearer about what the end goal is.
This actually sounds pretty cool... but I'm not sure who it's aimed at; scripts are typically for command line tools, not GUIs. And for those au fait with the command line, I'm not sure what the benefit is, beyond signing the package (which, technically, could already be done if you packaged your script in an MSI/MSIX installer).