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I like that Bellard released the source code in old school tar format rather than on github. The world's code collaboration platform is of little use to the world's best programmer.

Hopefully QuickJS won't discourage the author of Duktape from making future releases of his incredible small low-memory JS engine.

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What's to like about it? First thing I wanted to do is look at the sources, which is now a multiple-step process - especially since I'm on windows and usually work on a Mac. Not to mention mobile.

Both can decompress tarballs. No idea if mobile ever crossed their mind.

Windows can't extract tarballs unless you install the linux subsystem or install 7-zip or similar.

Macos can decompress them natively without installation.

> No idea if mobile ever crossed their mind.

If it was released on github/gitlab/gitea/etc they wouldn't need to.

It's not a big deal but it does add an extra step.

> What's to like about it? First thing I wanted to do is look at the sources, which is now a multiple-step process - especially since I'm on windows and usually work on a Mac. Not to mention mobile.

Such hardship. High quality software is provided for free and people are complaining about the distribution format? Code was developed just fine before github. If viewing files in a tarball is an impediment then this library is not for you.

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