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by bpye 543 days ago
That feels like the ISO equivalent of Cosmopolitan libc [0].

[0] - https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

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> The Makefile will download cosmocc automatically.

What can go wrong ?

> It's recommended that you install a systemwide APE Loader. This command requires sudo access to copy the ape command to a system folder and register with binfmt_misc on Linux, for even more performance.

A security nightmare.

How is this different from all the other installation instructions asking to `curl https://foo/install.sh | sh` or even add a custom apt/rpm repo or just install a deb or rpm locally?

They all might get sudo access.

I do agree, but the same holds for the above methods too.