Meg (@megmac@treehouse.systems)
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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.

  • manpacket@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It seems it was done to marginally improve serde_derive build times? And just on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu?

    Indeed. If you use nix instead of compiling in 8 seconds it fails to compile almost instantly.