And then I get a jar. Or maybe a war. Or maybe a zip? And maybe it's a fat jar with all dependencies bundled. Or maybe not and I need to fetch a bunch of deps and configure a classpath. And then I need the right JRE wherever I'm going to run it. And then I can run it like 'java -jar'. Or maybe I need a server like Tomcat. Or maybe something else.
And every time you jump into an existing codebase, you need to scrutinize the docs that are hopefully there to figure out particulars of the build/deploy process.
This is any language in any code base. Even in Go I will need to figure out if go modules, dep, or something else is being used. In rust, does this project produce a bin or rlib? Having options isn't a bad thing.
And every time you jump into an existing codebase, you need to scrutinize the docs that are hopefully there to figure out particulars of the build/deploy process.