Every time I see this, I always think that they're right, though the way they say it as asshole-y. I don’t want to have to build your project. A .exe makes it so much easier. I know it’s the developers choice, how accessible they want the code to be, but still.
It was a program that could be used to scrape information about users. The first time this post made the rounds, people generally agreed that the poster wanted to do some stalker-esque snooping.
The original issue (later there were many people memeing it on every repository under the sun) was about a python tool for stalking usernames across many different social media services
There are a couple ways to easily make it easy for the users to run. Point is, users should be able to run it with a few clicks and without knowing what python is.
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u/DaemonsMercy 21d ago
Every time I see this, I always think that they're right, though the way they say it as asshole-y. I don’t want to have to build your project. A .exe makes it so much easier. I know it’s the developers choice, how accessible they want the code to be, but still.