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  • Depends on what you’re used to. I have lost too much time trying to get a python or js program to run on my machine.
    Of course if the project is well written and with decent documentation it’s easier, but in general I have had too many incompatibilities with versions of the tooling and the dependencies which may be too ancient to work properly. On the other side, go code that was written a decade ago still compiles fine without thinking about it.
    Hell I even had a js project that was working then 6 months later, without changing any code in it, wouldn’t build. Talking to a front end dev at work he immediately said “oh yeah node was probably updated and you need to do x and y to make it work”. Sorry but I have other things to do than massaging bad tooling to build this.

    Btw, even containers are not a bullet proof solution. I had a python container straight up not work even though it was distributed like that.






  • Wow, I didn’t know that being a Linux/open source contributor meant you don’t have to follow your country’s laws.

    It’s developed internationally but devs still reside somewhere and have to abide by the rules at that place. Linux in this case being represented by an US entity means they have to follow the gov’s sanctions. If you want more or less of those, that’s where (the government) you act.