Yeah while APE is a technically impressive trick, these issues far outweigh the minor convenience of having a single binary.

For most cases, a single Windows exe that targets the oldest version you want to support plus a single Glibc binary that dynamically links against the oldest version you want to support and so on is still the best option.

>> Linux

> if you configure binfmt_misc

I don't think that's a requirement, it'll just fall back to the shell script bootstrap without it.