let's see these guys implement diff

One of our clients fucked up some configs so I had to go in and fix it. Easy task right? Copy diff.exe, check fuckups, done. WRONG. First you have to find a differ.

Why is it impossible to write a good software, compile it to a single binary and be done with it. Why do we have to make everything so complicated. File1 left, file2 right, changes blue, additions green, removals red. Nobody needs a mongolian translation nor cool icons nor 3way compare. Fuckk off imbed the images and translations in the binary if you can't help yourself.

I went with a legacy version of some differ the newer versions come with 3 dlls, 20 translation files, a phat coc, a copy of 7zip and fucking cygwin and the newest version can't even be used without an installer.

FUCK SOFTWARE

Package managers de facto made us spoiled for hard-to-build shit. Like Chromium or Calibre. Jegus, even with traditional package managers. I pray to a picture of RMS's taint every day that Guix comes into fruition so I don't have to deal with that anymore.

Notwithstanding, isn't diff POSIX compulsory? Call me a weenie, but I feel like issues such as this are what UNIX's all about. Grep may not do everything, but everything has grep. You can always write a script for grep; whereas, were you to reinvent the wheel with Python or whatever, you need libraries, and the end result may be too inscrutable for its worth. UNIX may not be super meritocratic, but that is practical.