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by denysvitali 1919 days ago
It really depends. Go and Rust softwares are generally easy to build from source
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I was trying out a bunch of different similar products, I was not going to set up a build environment just to test software. I immediately disqualified anything that required I build it from source.

Of the ones that didn't, very few had working install documentation and I wasn't going to fix it for them just to try out their product. I did open issues on their trackers about it for them, not that they cared since nothing has been done.

Bitwarden_rs was the one that had working install documentation that didn't require a build environment. It met our requirements in testing, so I deployed it to production.

Yes but coming from a go or rust neophyte to trusting that you've installed correctly from source is probably a higher bar than knowing that you've run a container correctly.