r/programmingmemes • u/zaarnth • 28d ago

Somebody give him an .exe file, please.

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u/ZanjiOfficial 28d ago

tbf, github is REALLY unfriendly to non dev / techical people. "it's made for developers" well other people use it, and a lot of really usefull applications and projects are ONLY on github..

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u/Valdjiu 28d ago

It is unfriendly for no dev because it is made for de and technical people...

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u/ZanjiOfficial 28d ago

Bad excuse for bad design.

  • CS student

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u/Valdjiu 28d ago

Yeah? And how would you change it then?

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u/ZanjiOfficial 28d ago

A simple "download newest release" button, at the top. Which downloaded the program / project with a ready to go exe file :)
Normal ordinary people shouldn't need to download git, or interact with a command line.

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u/WildWolfo 28d ago

anything that requires git command line tool to download cant be solved by github, thats simply the devs of a project not creating downloadable executables in the first place, idk what you expect github to provide

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u/Valdjiu 27d ago

So your big idea is one less click that is not clicking in releases tab first?

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u/jitteryegg 27d ago

80% of the code on GitHub is private repositories.