He had forgotten about . The Flashback To understand his mistake, we have to go back to 2017.
“It works. The lasers are beautiful. But why didn’t you just put it inside your installer?” c++ redist 2017
But he learned the lesson that every C++ developer learns eventually: Your .exe is not an island. It stands on the shoulders of giants — giant .dll files called the Visual C++ Redistributable. From that day on, Leo added a single line to his README: He had forgotten about
Visual Studio 2017 had arrived with a new, faster C++ compiler. When Leo wrote #include <vector> or used std::filesystem , his code wasn't magically turning into machine code alone. It was reaching out to — .dll files on Windows — that contained the guts of the C++ Standard Library. The lasers are beautiful