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Maybe you didn't get the whole "I picked it because it was easy to install" part. Building software from source is pretty much the exact opposite of that.

denysvitali 6y ago
It really depends. Go and Rust softwares are generally easy to build from source
- dbt00 6y ago
  Yes but coming from a go or rust neophyte to trusting that you've installed correctly from source is probably a higher bar than knowing that you've run a container correctly.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  I was trying out a bunch of different similar products, I was not going to set up a build environment just to test software. I immediately disqualified anything that required I build it from source. Of the ones that didn't, very few had working install documentation and I wasn't going to fix it for them just to try out their product. I did open issues on their trackers about it for them, not that they cared since nothing has been done. Bitwarden_rs was the one that had working install documentation that didn't require a build environment. It met our requirements in testing, so I deployed it to production.
smoldesu 6y ago
Rust is designed to be built from source, and the development toolchain is light enough to keep on a VPS if that's your bag. If you have Cargo installed, compiling and installing from source is easier than using NPM.
- alias_neo 6y ago
  > and the development toolchain is light enough to keep on a VPS Or, you know, in a Docker container... I build pretty much everything that's not C/C++ and/or Go using a Docker container now. When you're working in a team, it's also an amazing way to share the build environment
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  I couldn't care less about Rust. The fact that this project used it is irrelevant to me and I have no desire to setup a Rust build env.
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rubatuga 6y ago
Lmfao, you assume that docker is easy to install
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  Docker was an apt install, it wasn't exactly what I would call difficult.
- vangelis 6y ago
  It's not?

denysvitali 6y ago

It really depends. Go and Rust softwares are generally easy to build from source

dbt00 6y ago
Yes but coming from a go or rust neophyte to trusting that you've installed correctly from source is probably a higher bar than knowing that you've run a container correctly.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
I was trying out a bunch of different similar products, I was not going to set up a build environment just to test software. I immediately disqualified anything that required I build it from source. Of the ones that didn't, very few had working install documentation and I wasn't going to fix it for them just to try out their product. I did open issues on their trackers about it for them, not that they cared since nothing has been done. Bitwarden_rs was the one that had working install documentation that didn't require a build environment. It met our requirements in testing, so I deployed it to production.

smoldesu 6y ago

Rust is designed to be built from source, and the development toolchain is light enough to keep on a VPS if that's your bag. If you have Cargo installed, compiling and installing from source is easier than using NPM.

alias_neo 6y ago
> and the development toolchain is light enough to keep on a VPS Or, you know, in a Docker container... I build pretty much everything that's not C/C++ and/or Go using a Docker container now. When you're working in a team, it's also an amazing way to share the build environment
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
I couldn't care less about Rust. The fact that this project used it is irrelevant to me and I have no desire to setup a Rust build env.

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rubatuga 6y ago

Lmfao, you assume that docker is easy to install

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Docker was an apt install, it wasn't exactly what I would call difficult.
vangelis 6y ago
It's not?