ruffsl@programming.dev to Rust@programming.devEnglish · 2 years agoRust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binarieswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down12cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansrust@programming.devhackernews@derp.fooprogramming@programming.devsecurity@programming.devprogramming@beehaw.orgcybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.social
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkRust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binarieswww.bleepingcomputer.comruffsl@programming.dev to Rust@programming.devEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansrust@programming.devhackernews@derp.fooprogramming@programming.devsecurity@programming.devprogramming@beehaw.orgcybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.social
minus-squarejhultenlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoThe maintainer took a very FOSS approach of “this is better and the tools we use don’t support better choices, so you’re welcome to fix the tools.”
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoIf the binary matched the source code, that argument would hold, but it doesn’t, which is sounding alarm bells in my head. Just what is in those 600 kilobytes of machine code?
The maintainer took a very FOSS approach of “this is better and the tools we use don’t support better choices, so you’re welcome to fix the tools.”
If the binary matched the source code, that argument would hold, but it doesn’t, which is sounding alarm bells in my head. Just what is in those 600 kilobytes of machine code?