It was received positively at the time:
Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager 194 points | 115 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132373
This is beside the fact that we're talking about downloading and running a user-owned binary, which, unlike the shell script, is impractical to inspect in any detail, and has the same privileges as the shell script we're supposed to worry about.
I view "don't curl to shell" as about 90% theatrics basically. Sure, read it first, I do in fact do that. But it's a silly 'very hard rule'.
Many of them are actually quite well-written under the hood and can be easily moved to other directories, have comments about what it is doing, etc.
https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started
> The primary way that folks install Rust is through a tool called Rustup, which is a Rust installer and version management tool.
A couple of lines below
> curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
…and is ironic advice for a safety-critical system, no?
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(Yes, I’ve read arp242.net/curl-to-sh.html - but my point being that as I’d be new to Ada then I don’t know who to trust; I’ve never heard of getada.dev therefore I don’t trust it)