Kind of a deal breaker sure, but I don't think in that many cases. Is it really that hard to launch an older VM and make a build there? Or just decide you don't

Kind of a deal breaker sure, but I don't think in that many cases. Is it really that hard to launch an older VM and make a build there? Or just decide you don't need to support anything older than your dev machine? Or just always run with source code? For my little scripts (which admittedly are much less organized than those in the article) they're mostly just on my own dev machine. Occasionally I build binaries and ship them over to another server without any tooling on it, but it's never very far out of date. Such scripts are also fairly long-lived; it's nice that some binary I made in 2021 (to replace a perl script that had been stable for ~10 years) continues to do its job.