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.

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[–] Vorpal@lemmyrs.org 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I saw some other crate doing something similar but using wasm, the idea is to sandbox the binary used as a proc macro. So that seems a bit better. Can't see to find it any more.

EDIT: Found it https://lib.rs/crates/watt

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Made by the same guy

[–] manpacket@lemmyrs.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

serde is maintained by dtolnay, he is not the original author.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] manpacket@lemmyrs.org 8 points 2 years ago

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

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