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Rust has cargo, which just works and doesn't require you to set it up (cargo build --release; hand binary to the client, no makefile required). but... we hav

Rust has cargo, which just works and doesn't require you to set it up (cargo build --release; hand binary to the client, no makefile required). but... we have clouds now, so even if you find something, development will require CD/CI pipeline, github actions and so on.

svnpenn 4y ago
> development will require CD/CI pipeline, github actions and so on Nope, definitely doesn't. You can just distribute the source code alone, same as has been done for decades. And with languages like Go and Rust, it's quite fast and simple to build from source, even on Windows.
the__alchemist 4y ago
You had me until the cloud thing. Rust really is cargo r -- release, then distro the binary. On Win, just works. On Linux, generally the user's OS has to be the same or newer than the compiler's. Can usually sort this out by compiling on an old OS via WSL. Example: I have a molecular simulator I'm working on. Has 3D Vulkan graphics, a GUI, and a few dependencies. My mother got it working by opening the (3Mb compressed) binary after downloading from a dropbox folder.