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The devs may not have linux or windows machines to build on


And they don't need to – Electron tooling can cross-compile just fine nowadays. Of course, to test it you do have to have access to the platform, but even an untested release would be nice.

(That said, I'd probably release it as a webapp instead – unless there's some native code involved, and even that probably could be compiled as Wasm.)

Edit: looked into it, seems they are using a Go executable as the core of the app, which means a naive port (drop app.asar into Electron package for another platform) isn't an option here but it still should be pretty easy to port.




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