I routinely peddle in binaries for open source, and even my own projects. Building from source is a pain in the ass, usually nondeterministic, and a constant m

I routinely peddle in binaries for open source, and even my own projects. Building from source is a pain in the ass, usually nondeterministic, and a constant maintenance burden with evolving compilers and build toolchains - not exactly the beacon of stability. EDIT: And dear me, I forgot to mention slow. If you think stability and correctness are bad now, try compiling random codebases from the 90s with a motley melange of random people using random compiler versions - some prerelease, some stable, some unpatched and broken - many of which have been just as if not more aggressive than CPU vendors with regards to things like "undefined behavior" in C and C++ codebases. Yes, microcode bugs suck. No, getting rid of x86 won't eliminate them. No, getting rid of QAed, tested, and sometimes disassembly-verified binaries (for such things as verifying fixed duration crypto operations) in favor of compiling with any and every C compiler under the sun isn't going to improve stability and correctness. No, I really don't want to go through the bother of installing configuring and fixing your build chain either.