serde_derive now ships a precompiled binary. This made a lot of people angry. The crate maintainer finally locked the issue.

  • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    One of the main reasons would be to try and hide what’s in it

    If, for example, you wanted to add tracking code into the generated code, and knew people would stop using your product if they found out

    • huntrss@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Is there anything confirmed yet? Like what is inside this precompiled binary?

      • Anders429@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        As far as I know, no one has yet been able to reproduce the binary with the source code, so I don’t think the contents of it are confirmed at all.