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It's not cultural that if you generate static HTML with syntax-highlighted code, the viewer only has to click once, whereas a zip file requires 3 or 4 clicks, plus filesystem namespace, for an un-highlighted version.

If you want 100 people to view your website, isn't it fair to spend 50x of your own time as you can save of the viewer's time?

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If I am shopping around for an embedded systems language, I am more interested in reading about the runtime, any limitations, and the language spec. Technical considerations are top of the list. Thus "cultural".

Maybe they don't want people who refuse to spend 5 minutes on reading the docs, where they would find 3 complete, runnable examples.

Ah, this is what exclusive by design really means.

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