Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

[Seb]

On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:25:47 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran 
wrote:
> On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:15:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>>
>>> curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd
>>
>> Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script (with unknown 
>> contents), right off the web.
>>
>> Will people never learn?
>
> Relax and take a break. You can still download the script, 
> review and then run it as required.

First I had a typo there - it should have been

> curl https://dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd

(I type to much text on my tiny phone screen these days).

Apart from as Arun correctly pointed out, going the two step 
route of doing your audit locally:

---
wget https://dlang.io/install.sh
vi install.sh # do your audit
bash install.sh
---

Also:

- note that install.sh will download the official D keyring 
(https://dlang.org/gpg_keys.html), with which all binaries + the 
script itself are signed, s.t. it can verify binaries + updates 
to the script.

- it's a fairly common practice, e.g. https://www.rustup.rs