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software is too hard to compile
this is bad for the ecosystem of software and also culture as a whole
this might sound like a weird claim if you've a) never tried to pull a large software project off a website and build it from scratch, or b) do that all the time. but
it's a problem because it kind of undermines the concept of open source in a pretty basic way. for a lot of software, grabbing the thing and making it do what you want involves an indefinite amount of overcomplicated bullshit as you try to install the right versions of a bunch of dependencies you've never heard of and decipher output from an idiosyncratic build system. you can't just get in there and experiment
Anthony Sorace@aeonofdiscord I want every project’s readme (or similar) to have a “requires/you will need” section that lists all the dependencies. Compiler/language and build system, to start.
Kartik Agaram@a @aeonofdiscord The hard part is keeping it up to date. At several jobs I've made that one of my duties. I try to watch for PRs that break the onboarding, blow away my setup and try to follow the Readme.
I suspect it doesn't make me very popular with my teams :) But it's the sort of janitorial duty I think senior engineers should take charge of. What are you without a sense of ownership?