DotSlash

Fetch & run executables.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Vendor executables without checking large binaries into source control. Makes it easy to standardize & pin specific dependency versions e.g. Node or an internal-only runtime build. Downloads and verifies the binaries. Can be generated using the included GitHub Actions workflow.

Tradeoffs

It’s not a package manager and is designed for a single binary. The main limitation of this is the lack of support for installing dependent packages.

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