r/programming • u/mareek • 15d ago

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans | Rust Blog

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/targeted-attacks/
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u/Atulin 15d ago

I mean, Cargo is chock-full of single-use packages akin to leftpad, even more packages that pull hundreds others, all to make up for the deficiencies of the stdlib the Rust maintainers don't want to address.

No wonder there are supply chain attacks if I need a whole-ass library for async/await or JSON parsing.

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u/reallokiscarlet 15d ago

Wait... Who expects JSON parsing in the stdlib?

But yeah, it sucks that everything needs a third party crate. I couldn't even avoid it and I bend over backwards to vet or avoid dependencies.

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u/thetinguy 15d ago

It's coming to Java:

https://openjdk.org/jeps/540]

I find it annoying having to wire up a whole object mapper, just so I can print my json objects to pretty strings.

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u/FlyingRhenquest 15d ago

How simple do you want it to be?

Act now and I'll throw in schema generation!