> Hardly anything with any amount of complexity is shipped like that
The entire HashiCorp stack and Cockroachdb comes to mind. I’m sure there are things that are much more complex in the world, but they do some fairly heavy lifting.
> especially not cross-platform
I find it drastically simpler to download a single binary for each platform I need to deploy to(macOS,Linux,FreeBSD) than it is to get a consistent Java environment setup on those same platforms.
The entire HashiCorp stack and Cockroachdb comes to mind. I’m sure there are things that are much more complex in the world, but they do some fairly heavy lifting.
> especially not cross-platform
I find it drastically simpler to download a single binary for each platform I need to deploy to(macOS,Linux,FreeBSD) than it is to get a consistent Java environment setup on those same platforms.