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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by rafram on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:56AM (#46513929)
> Build scripts communicate with Cargo by printing to stdout.

Oh lord.

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by ComputerGuru on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:28PM (#46516407)
Wrote an entire crate to clean up that mess (and provide traditional autoconf-ish features for build.rs): https://crates.io/crates/rsconf
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