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Binary executables are a nice feature, especially for distributing to users. It's much easier for most people to download a standalone "mac" or "windows" binar
by hoosieree 3y ago
Binary executables are a nice feature, especially for distributing to users.
It's much easier for most people to download a standalone "mac" or "windows" binary than to know if they already have the right version of Python or Perl or Clang (and all the transitive dependencies your project adds).
- eatonphil 3y agoWe don't host the built binaries of these scripts (we could!), but we bootstrap the local environment through a single bash script or batch script (Windows) that pulls down the Zig compiler. Then everything else in the repo depends only on that until we get until client-language specific bits which of course depend on other languages. But yeah it is quite simple still.