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Outside of architecture astronautical web development (usually done on a Mac while sipping some kind of coffee and milk blend) no it is not acceptable one bit.



Yeah, instead it's much more secure one-liner:

  $ wget http://example.com/foo.tgz && tar xf foo.tgz && cd foo && ./configure && make && sudo make install


I mean, even to install Rust they give you a command to do this. So no, it's not just web dev.


Well Rust is a Mozilla creation, and Mozilla is first and foremost a web company...




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