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> Getting alire installed involves downloading the zip, extracting the binary, and moving the binary to a directory in $PATH. If you're on a mac, you also have to run an "xattr" command on the tool to get it running.

Is that considered a high bar for software developers to get right?

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In practice, yes.

We're doomed.

yeah, g-d forbid that any routine busywork gets automated by software, otherwise all those lines of code might actually have a point!

That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.

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