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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by ogoffart on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:52AM (#38021729)
> they have a no-automation policy

What's that? I have scripts that automate publishing of new release of my crates. And I think many projects have.

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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by hobofan on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:16AM (#38021867)
Of course that's permitted.

What they stated was only regarding claiming new ownership over crate names:

> Using an automated tool to claim ownership of a large number of package names is not permitted.

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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by serial_dev on Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:12AM (#38022647)
Write some automated analysis that looks up popular packages on npm, pub.dev, rubygems, nuget. "Rustify" the package names. Add to it frequently used words, maybe popular names, etc. Then, write a script that creates an empty package, registers a name on crates.io every thirty seconds, and then you have about 20k package names after a week that nobody can use.
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