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by krzyk 25 days ago
Because people are crazy, usage of npm for installing binaries is quite common unfortunately.
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So …. do I understand it right? openai, one of the hottest companies on the planet right now, with very deep pockets, distribute their official rust cli via the … public npm repo?
Maybe they consider npm-install an improvement over curl-pipe-bash?
Yes.

There is also homebrew install.