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This is sometimes true.

Go and Rust both (often) build single-executable binaries, often with very few (and, rarely, no) dependencies. It’s becoming more rare for developers to include proper man pages, more’s the pity, but things like man pages, READMEs, and LICENSE files are often the only assets packages from these languages include.

If you’re installing with Cargo or go install, then even the intermediate build assets are fairly well-contained; go install hides binaries quite effectively from users who don’t know to include GOPATH(/bin) in their paths, because Go puts everything into a single tree rooted there.

Libraries are a different matter; you get headers and usually more documentation. Interpreted languages are as you say: a great pile of shit spewed all over your system, and how bad that can be depends a lot on how many different ways you install them.

Anyway, I’m not disagreeing with you, except that it’s a trend for newer compiled languages to build stand-alone binaries that you can usually just copy between systems and have it work.

I did it by doing a download of all my posts, and then deleted my account and everything I ever wrote there. I understand the argument that that this is “bad for the internet,” but I’m not interested in helping Reddit profit off my labor when I’m not using their service. Also, it’s a no-takeh backs approach; once I did it, I couldn’t go back, short of creating a new account, which is easy for me to resist.