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by qrv3w 2119 days ago
As BusTrainBus says, "installability" is useful, and it was one of my motivations.

I agree installation for magic wormhole is easy for Mac/Linux, but I think its not easy on Windows. Windows is very common (77% of the market share for desktops [1]) so I wanted to keep croc easy to install for Windows.

In fact, if you are just receiving a file on Windows, all you have to do is download the binary from releases [2], unzip it, and double click on the binary - no terminal experience required. (Sending a file does require using a terminal, but all CLI apps have that hurdle...).

[1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

[2]: https://github.com/schollz/croc/releases