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I've been very disappointed with the pains of using git. I would really like something like this, but the steps to install it are:

> Anu is written in Rust, and can be installed by first installing Rust, and then...

Yeah, I'm not installing an entire language just to use your tool. I don't need to install a C or C++ compiler to run Photoshop or Microsoft Word. Why do I need to install a compiler, libraries, etc. just to try out your tool? No thanks.

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Because that's traditionally how open source has been done? For decades? Especially if you're in a Unix/Linux environment? Eventually we started getting package managers and the distro maintainers started creating binaries of most of the packages you'd want to install, but the distro maintainers usually build those packages from source. This is new software and I imagine the distro maintainers will package it up if it starts to gain steam.

Doing it from source also has the advantage that the package maintainers can customize the build process so that it works better with their system. Photoshoto and MS Word are closed source and proprietary, which creates issues if you want to package them.

I mean, it's apparently still in alpha. I imagine there will be installers and it'll be included in package managers when it gets to 1.0.

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