matt on Nostr: It’s incredibly frightening how much all modern software expects you to download an ...
It’s incredibly frightening how much all modern software expects you to download an entire toolchain to run it.
If it want anything resembling a secure toolchain you end up stuck with ancient software or C projects only.
Java? Here’s a grade *binary* included in the git “source” repo. Rust? Please go download rust via rustup, if you don’t have the version from this week gfy. Go? Basically the same, with tons of dependencies fetched from random git repos. JavaScript? lol, you’re screwed.
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