> I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer. So I don't code for business operations. I compile them to make them work.
Sounds like you have an organizational problem, not a programming language problem.
I would expect developers to provide you with an actual application or at least automated way to build it, and you to deploy and handle the given application.
Instead you have developers providing source code and you trying to understand how to make it work.
There are plenty of tools, methods and ways to get a repeatable build process, including docker, CI, bash scripts...
Even a README file can contain a valid and repeatable build process.
Even a process called 'ask to Robert how it works' would provide you with the information you need
It's hard to imagine that this is not scripted or at least documented somewhere.
Sounds like you have an organizational problem, not a programming language problem.
I would expect developers to provide you with an actual application or at least automated way to build it, and you to deploy and handle the given application.
Instead you have developers providing source code and you trying to understand how to make it work.
There are plenty of tools, methods and ways to get a repeatable build process, including docker, CI, bash scripts...
Even a README file can contain a valid and repeatable build process.
Even a process called 'ask to Robert how it works' would provide you with the information you need
It's hard to imagine that this is not scripted or at least documented somewhere.