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davidaneksteinyesterday at 12:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Is installing Rust any different?

https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install


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notpushkinyesterday at 12:44 PM

There are other methods, e.g. it’s probably available in all major distros’ package managers right now, as well as in Homebrew on macOS and Choco on Windows.

And curl|bash alone is probably okay-ish? You’re still running the code ultimately, so you either trust it or not. It’s what I use for my own project (with a twist: you get the chance to read the script before you run it): https://lunni.dev/docs/install/

But combined with the “ai_personal_chef” it really tripped me off. What the hell is that even supposed to mean? Do I pipe a code written by LLM directly into my shell? (Probably not, it would be pretty expensive for them to run that.)

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