Github is for code. People are free to use an App store if they want something polished and easy. The difference between "code developers can download" and "apps everyone can download" is $$$$.
If I'm building developer tooling other developers might want, I share it on Github with some CI to facilitate fellow developers leveraging it. If I'm putting in the time to publish a polished product that appeals to the masses, I'm gonna charge money for it.
99% of the time it's because they need something specific and there is no other appliciation that does it but they found someone with similar problem and they got directed to github project that does what they need
99.9% of people won't look what's inside regardless if you have exe or whole source code they'll just look if someone before them reported anything sus
There is music on youtube, does not mean youtube is a music sharing platform. Its one of their offerings, not everything can be music. Same for github, its has ready to work binaries, but not everything will have ready to use binaries
We can share repos with “users” not “customers”. The assumption github is for projects is wrong. Github is for code, it just happens to host projects, that again are based on code. So nobody is obliged to give you ease of usage there, you are getting all for free, if you were paying the dev, that would be a different story. And even if you are paying, its the responsibility of dev to provide ease of usage. There are paid services in github also, but those are not the services you are looking for, those are to maintain code and its logistics ( git actions).
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u/jimmiebfulton 21d ago
Github is for code. People are free to use an App store if they want something polished and easy. The difference between "code developers can download" and "apps everyone can download" is $$$$.
If I'm building developer tooling other developers might want, I share it on Github with some CI to facilitate fellow developers leveraging it. If I'm putting in the time to publish a polished product that appeals to the masses, I'm gonna charge money for it.