What is going on with serde? - eviltoast
Meg (@megmac@treehouse.systems)
social.treehouse.systems
hoooooly shit the new version of serde_derive includes a pre-built executable and has no official way to turn that off? Wtaf. https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/2538 #rustlang

So, serde seems to be downloading and running a binary on the system without informing the user and without any user consent. Does anyone have any background information on why this is, and how this is supposed to be a good idea?

dtolnay seems like a smart guy, so I assume there is a reason for this, but it doesn’t feel ok at all.

    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
      5·
      1 year ago

      I thought he was a genious inventing so many useful tools. Does he maintain other projects he didn’t create?

      • manpacket@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Not sure, possibly. You still need to be pretty smart maintaining and extending all those tools.