What is RapidEXE?

Long story short: it's a compiler. It packs up your scripts, along with dependencies, into a nice little EXE that can run on its own. That is, every executable will carry around its runtime environment, be it php or python, and silently unpack them somewhere behind the scenes so that it can smoothly run your script just like home.

How do I compile?

Just say rapidexe compile myproject - the obvious way. You can tweak some config options but the defaults will work just fine. There are some example projects to play with.

Will my script run faster?

Nope. They run at the exact same speed as they do when you use the runtime enviromment itself. In fact that's exactly what happens when you run the EXE.

Is it better than $otherproduct ?

No, most probably it isn't. There are tools out there that give you a visual environment, a window to run in, a simulated Apache server and all bells n whistles. RapidEXE is different; it's a swiss knife. It doesn't want to compete with any other tool, it just makes sure your script will run on other computers where no php or python is installed.

Okay it's a lot better than many other products that have been abandoned like for 10 years now; Bambalam and others, the ones who never really caught up to speed. But they're a different approach.

Also, with RapidEXE you get a relatively small EXE file, in the 10 megabyte magnitude, which is surely more than a properly compiled one from a serious language (C#, JScript, Lazarus, etc) but significantly smaller than what you get using any other PHP compiler out there.