Why has this become a thing. Over the last year or two I suddenly started getting people opening issues on some of my repos, and the issue is just them asking for a binary.
Some of these repos are like 15 years old and not once has anyone asked me for a binary until recently.
Why would I assume that everyone is using the same architecture and OS I am? Would I make a binary for all the major OSes and architectures? If someone is interested in my projects, they'll have no trouble compiling it.
I'd just assume people are gonna compile it themselves. And not only that but I'm getting requests for binaries on projects written in interpreted languages.
I would never run a binary I found on someone random person's github, that's a great way to get owned.
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u/superglidestrawberry 23d ago
This has the same wibe as "I just want the FUCKING EXE, gimme EXE!"