To Install Fossil: Download Executable, Put in Your Path

Just sharing one aspect of my love for the Fossil version control system (from the creators of SQLite) which I've used for 4+ years.

To install it - download a ~10 MB executable binary file, put it in your path, and you've got the entire system (version control, wiki, bug database, chat system, HTTP(s) server and web-based UI, email server, etc.). To upgrade it, copy the new binary over the old one.

This is exactly how software should be!

The rest of the industry lost its mind somewhere - containers bundling thousands of dependencies, separate builds for 100 different distros, DLL / .so hell, 200 MB Electron hello-worlds, etc.