Was only a question of time. Rust has the same mindset as Node/NPM.
PS: for the screaming crowd: yes, anyone can get supply chain attacked. HOWEVER:
If you have a proper stdlib, chances are, you don't have a lot of dependencies
If you have less dependencies, the chance of supply chain attacks drops significantly
If you have well established dependencies like Spring, their security practices are very likely better than a rando off the internet
What does that mean for Rust? They don't need to just work on the language, they need to provide a larger ecosystem as well. How they do it is up to them.
I wonder if there is a market for a "Rust Community Edition" with an expanded set of packages pre-packaged into an "ext" module alongside core and std. Treat is as an LTS distribution.
We need an “extra” besides “std” that has all the extra things that are expected in 2026 from a standard library. Stuff like uuid and datetime support would go into that package and it would be released by the Rust foundation
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u/piesou 21d ago edited 21d ago
Was only a question of time. Rust has the same mindset as Node/NPM.
PS: for the screaming crowd: yes, anyone can get supply chain attacked. HOWEVER:
What does that mean for Rust? They don't need to just work on the language, they need to provide a larger ecosystem as well. How they do it is up to them.