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Yeah, I've given up trying to know all the libraries in my projects. I feel like the added development speed and code quality is just so good that not taking the risk of a supply chain attack is basically not an option.
I do try to primarily use libraries from the Rust team or from more widely known devs (and hope that they also do that), but most projects worth doing will need one or two specialty libraries where all bets and bus factors are off...
You think your code is higher quality with more dependencies? All you're doing is offloading complexity to a separate project.
If you make a program that does "something worth doing", but you need some specialty library to actually do it (which you didn't implement yourself), than sorry, but it wasn't you who did it.
Yes, offloading complexity to a separate project which has already invested more time into code quality than I could possibly justify.
As for your second point, I don't care who solved the problem. If you care, I hope you're smelting your own sand to build your own CPU and assembly language. But I'm obviously also not solving the exact same problem as the library already solved.
Why are you looking for conflict?
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