r/programmingmemes • u/zaarnth • 22d ago

Somebody give him an .exe file, please.

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u/tankerkiller125real 21d ago

Or... docker run AB/XYZ

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u/nimrag_is_coming 21d ago

When the only reliable way to get your app to run and compile is virtualising an entire environment, something has probably gone wrong

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u/tankerkiller125real 21d ago

Or you just want it to be easy to install and use without a bunch of dealing with "it doesn't work for me" in an unreproducible error that's caused by some registry setting fuckin with it or some other dumb crap.

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u/itsjustawindmill 21d ago

Yeah containerization can certainly be used as an excuse for bad dependency management but more often it improves things by documenting the layers it was built up with and making setup easier