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Hopefully? Buy it, or borrow it, and read it.
Remove doubt
But in the long term, we are all dead
It can happen to anyone
The world economy is not a zero sum gain, we all do better when we do better
Cooperate with China, love and cherish them.
Unlike us of European heritage, they are not imperialistic
Get over yourselves!
The problem was ignored, perhaps?
Not every project is vulnerable, but many systems programming tasks are
I have encounted it
Even a small rust programme can end up importing hundreds of crates. For many applications you need to investigate and verify your dependencies.
A substantialstandard library, the hypothesis is, will vastly reduce the number of sources you need to trust
It is early days for this, it is not to be trusted yet.
2. It is not crates.io specifically that is the problem. It is the concept of using many imports that all need verifying (my original statement here)
> are Rust developers going to seriously entertain an alternative "standard library" curated by one developer.
No. Absolutely not
But this is a start. Join the effort. Help them
Argumentum ad hominem, yuk
> the fundamental mistake of assuming that they’re trustworthy and we’d trust them no questions asked.
The author makes no such assumption, it is entirely your decision
> this repo is 100% AI slop,
That is an exaggeration. It is coded with AI help, as is almost everything these days
Agree, or disagree, that an anemic standard library is a problem, and crates.io is a glaring security risk and a looming catastrophe Kerkour is doing something about it
This is a start
It is one repo to trust, rather than hundreds
That is the reason
Strong words. Care to back them up?
IMO you are either honest or you are not
This ban is security theater, virtue signaling, again
I started out looking for lightweight X-Windows solutions, for the LLM and me to use. Cutting a long and frustrating story short I settled on SDL2 Rust wrapper
But what a PITA X-Windows is (e.g. need Wayland for some things, but does not work well for others), and my goal is an appliance, not an app.
So in a moment of insight I spent an afternoon getting SDL2 to draw on the Framebuffer and dispensed with X entirely
I highly recommend this approach. Life is so much easier without X-Windows
HTML5 is the sanest for me. I can actually find where code executes, tooling using browsers (Firefox or Chromium) excellent and the declarative layout works well
The hours and hours I spent chasing the executing code in Dart/Flutter and, oh my aching head, in SwiftUI made me hate those with passion
I get that it is unsuitable for desktop programmes, for many good reasons, but it is so much better to modify.
...is "Rule of Law" IMO
Golly.
Europe got from the Islamic world in the crusades. Did it though? End barbarism?
They are
Not here, this is a casual discussion not a scientific seminar.
But use Occam's Razor and modern history
Point 1. Corruption has penetrated the highest echelons of USAnian politics. The president is unabashed in his corruption and has corrupted (is corrupting) the financial regulators (I follow Molly White who has been particularly good on this)
Point 2. Space-X is valuing itself at an astonishing value that is not anchored in its business activities. This has been covered a lot in comments here but also see Patrick Boyle's excellent commentary.
Point 3. The purveyors of these IPOs have been doing their best to get the rules changed (because reasons blah blah blah), the change will mean that managed funds, if they follow their usual practice, will feel compelled to buy in at the offer price - a massive inflow of capital that will make many people incredibly rich.
Putting all this together - a culture of corruption that has reached the pinnacles of the financial system, outrageous valuations and open conspiring to change the rules in favour of the whole scheme leads me to the conclusion that I am looking at the biggest (what is effectively the) fraud in history
I hedge my comments "effectively the" as I cannot be sure that this is conscious theft, or whether it is a confluence of powerful people facing juicy incentives who going with the flow are heading to a massive wealth transfer from working people (via pension funds) to elite capitalists
I do not think that this is not apparent to the governors of these huge pension funds. Those that have not tied themselves to an index following strategy will opt out I am sure - they are smart, studious and dutiful people by and large. So the people perpetuating this fraud may well be unable to pull it off.
But these are very worrying times. Especially for the USA.
What makes you think that?
> I wonder why picking on Rust specifically.
I did not see that. What did I miss?
Passive index investing was once the best strategy, perhaps is still. But in the face of such apparent malfeasance perhaps no longer
The big pension funds do have governors, they are mostly diligent and can change course
that will mitigate but not eliminate the downsides to this nonsense
Passive funds dominate ow, don't they?
History will be the judge.
But using nothing more than Occum's Razor and recent corporate history as a guide the reason that "...many are arguing for fast-track inclusion" is that they are crooked.
And just because yesterday's rules were "invest in S&P500" does not mean the governors of many (not all) funds cannot change the rules to dodge such blatant fraud
The managers of huge funds are not complete idiots- far from it- and they will do what they can, most of them, to fulfill their duties
Following the rules of passive indexes is the whole point.
Mēh! The passive indexes (biased to a momentum strategy, so not really passive - they are too big) may have had their day. The blatantly corrupt move to change the rules was clearly an attempt to game them, and even with out the rule change they will squeeze themselves through the rule gate with financial engineering
This will always be the trend in finance, the powerful manipulate the system to their benefit, the rest of us do what we can to survive....
China, obviously.
As far as I can tell it is in machines they cannot make work, servicing markets that do not exist for a service that will not matter for 20-years.
That and a third rate AI company that no body wants, except to get rid of.
This will probably go swimmingly at the start - but as time goes by and they raise more capital, Musk snorts more K and the glory fades, what then?