I've spent two days in node-gyp hell trying to figure out this self-signed cert in keychain issue I've had, and this is the answer that finally got everything working properly :)

For a language-agnostic consideration of the design decision, see What is the advantage of having this/self pointer mandatory explicit?. To close debugging questions where OP omitted a self …

Nov 1, 2022 · 15 As the subject suggests, even if publishing with "--self-contained true" (and with a specific -r option), the runtime still asks for missing .net installation.

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By making the self reference explicit, you're free to refer to any object by that self reference. Also, such a way of playing with classes at runtime is harder to do in the more static languages - not that's it's …

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