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Zed (vscode alternative) on Linux is out! (zed.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/8476122

Zed on Linux is out!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Might be neat. Might check it out. But devs really need to stop asking me to install things by curling a script and piping it into my shell. There are better ways to do this. Doing this leaves a massive possible attack surface.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No matter how they package it, running a binary downloaded from Internet has the same attack surface

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You are right, except for one detail. Package managers almost always validate the packages using digital signatures, to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. You don't need to trust the network anymore. Shell scripts piped to a shell don't have that protection. You still have to trust the developers and maintainers, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

~~Agree. Not at all a security expert here, but maybe doing it inside a distrobox could be a temporary fix?~~

Forget it, I just tried and it seems it gets installed in your home directory so using distrobox doesn't change anything (apparently, but as I said I'm not an expert so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

However, I've seen they also have it available through a bunch of package managers like nix, arch and Fedora