rustup

Before rustup can run, the very first message rustup-init spits out is asking to install the visual studio tool chain.

Swift has swiftly to manage the Swift compilers to use (equivalent of rustup) and LSP works pretty well.

Compare that to something like rustup (910 lines of code), claude (158 lines), or opencode (460 lines).

A bug got opened against the rustup installing the headless toolchain by itself at some point.

And look of rustup tree to resolve the issue just doesn't seem very appealing.

Guess I'll just go back to using the rustup until brew installs cargo as well as rust.

The very first thing rustup-init asked was to install Visual Studio before proceeding.

You might have slightly different steps for installing rustup for Windows (e.g.

I've been using my own `rustup` script, but this is much nicer!

The easy path is downloading binary toolchains with rustup and not using your disto package manager.

Whoever controls the dns for rustup.rs, or the webserver, or the BGP nodes between you and the webserver, can just change that at any time, or change it only when requests come from specific IP addresses and backdoor people all day long.

Most people get rust from rustup, an unsigned "curl | sh" style magic script.

So that's why I'm suddenly getting all these "warning: use of unstable item" after doing a rustup.

OK, rustup etc installed and it looks amazing and there is lots of great stuff in the initial view - I'm investigating "Weird stuff".

Jetbrains Toolbox is in a sort of different category with tools like Rustup, since it's a package manager of its own.