alt Hacker News> That only massively compounds the problem.
The Windows ecosystem, that manages to deliver built binaries easily & widely, regardless of whether the author has a 1 year old OS or a 15 year old OS, suggests that it's not as big a problem as you believe.
It's not a problem in the same way that things like snap or flatpak aren't problems. It works but it bloats things up considerably and makes you wonder where it all went so wrong. I mean, dozens of slightly incompatible runtimes inside a single process?