How to Lose Control of Your Shell

Re:How to Lose Control of Your Shell by 38 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @01:10PM (#39653587)

> detect when a given language server binary, such as gopls, is already present in $PATH. If so, it should use that instead of downloading a new binary

Please don't do this. If you don't find the file, just bail out. Your editor doesn't have to do everything. Soon enough Zed will be adding an email client

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Re:How to Lose Control of Your Shell by vrighter on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:11PM (#39655125)

+1 on this. my system already has a package manager. I don't want the same binary installed again in ~/ReinventedWheel24610

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Re:How to Lose Control of Your Shell by xcdzvyn on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:22PM (#39655173)

Strongly agree here. VS Code extensions with the audacity to download and execute random binaries are particularly pleasant on my NixOS system, where these binaries simply don't work.

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Re:How to Lose Control of Your Shell by m45t3r on Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:46PM (#39655563)

I am fine with this behavior as long as I can disable it. Yes, I also use NixOS and don't like when things download random binaries, but I can understand there is demand for things that just work TM.

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