On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 23:07:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Rust has a nice way to download at
https://www.rust-lang.org/downloads.html for Posix:
$ curl -sSf https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sh -s --
The method is simple and transparent. An optional
--channel=beta or --channel=nightly parameter chooses between a
stable release (default), beta, or nightly build.
Should we do something similar?
Andrei
If there is anything I hate Rust devs for, it is the madness
being advertised as "simple and nice" starting point. It is so
horrible I can't help but suspect intentional diversion intended
to harm developer culture.
- teaches people `curl X | sh` is fine and normal and not
security abomination
- completely ignores system package manager (and pollutes the
system)
- doesn't solve any interesting problems (i.e. switching between
compiler versions)
