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You'll get fired or you'll gain the support of other developers who won't see you as a threat (because of your low productivity and because of the handy things you do).
Not true.
And if every gas station has a fast charger then you don't need a parking space with a charger.
It's like there is a shortcut that some people use that you want to wall in because it doesn't look pretty to you.
But I think that adding friction to the "download binaries from some site" is doing nothing more than alienating Windows developers. Qt just must add something like "Sign in with Google/Facebook with one click" because this audience cares about convenience.
When you choose this wording or stuff like "someone is worried" then it's a plain FUD.
Distributions ship binaries with OS anyways. You won't have to build it yourself.
yep, other programs totally don't need to deal with different OS, graphics APIs, GPU driverstacks and hardware architectures.
The neat "software distribution system" - the web browser became very popular. The wide adoption of the browser has forced js into the realm of the general purpose languages because it was the language of that VM-browser.
oh look, another one
That's how you get quality user experience. It creates balance between developer of the library/tool and the user of the library/tool.