Rust's simple download script

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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)