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Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by wrongtime on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:45AM (#33829276)
>It's not like you make a bad git commit and suddenly the world stops working.

https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...

Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by jstimpfle on Friday December 02, 2022 @07:00AM (#33829397)
Sure, I know this. I don't think this contradicts my argument. It didn't suddenly make running infrastructure exposed. But yeah, people needed to find a replacement to continue development (which I hope wasn't hard)?

If this breakage is an argument for anything, it is against depending on lots of code that you don't even know. The last Rust projects I tried to build all had on the order of 500 transitive dependencies, by the way.