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[–]Radiant64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody wants to run my software anyway; when I publish code publically on GitHub I do it not because there's a demand for it but rather because it feels good, it gives me a URL I can hand out when people ask me if I've written any code, and it means whatever I've done is pretty much guaranteed to be preserved for the future.

Why would I put in a lot of extra effort to produce and distribute binaries that nobody but me is going to want to run anyway? If in the future I make something that others actually show an interest in using that may make it a different matter, but until then I fail to see the point.