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Although it might feel weird as onboarding, as developer you should get used to use commands like curl or be able to set your development environment by typing
by mister_hn 6y ago
Although it might feel weird as onboarding, as developer you should get used to use commands like curl or be able to set your development environment by typing in the console.
Those who rely only on simple installers are the one classified as red-flags
- toyg 6y agoI think the point of that paragraph is that it’s busywork: just type this magic incantation to do things that some sysadmin could do (and probably should have done) for you in advance, without any real explanation of why or what you’re doing it. She knows what curl is.
- heyoni 6y agoI bet it was homebrew.
- jmcgough 6y agoShe was commenting on the security concerns around using curl to download and run programs.
- 8192kjshad09- 6y agoI don't think so, there are no security concerns. Using curl is no more dangerous than downloading and executing an installer https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/213401/is-curl-something-sudo-bash-a-reasonably-safe-installation-method https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/213401/is-curl-...
- cygx 6y agoDepends on whether the mechanism you're comparing it to has a cryptographic verfification step, or not. On the flip side, a script may be short enough to manually audit.
- Dayshine 6y agoAre you sure curl installation scripts are better than vanilla installers + shared config files?
- mister_hn 6y agoYes because curl get straight to the point. Installers might break depending on OS updates (see macOS/Windows)