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Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload by pjmlp on Friday August 21, 2026 @02:15AM (#49384411)
Regex does the job for most business software, iostreams is alright, using them since 1993, std::format is cool provided one has control over their compiler version,...
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Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload by VorpalWay on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:49AM (#49386268)
Regex is absolutely not suitable for most use cases that I have come across. Iostreams formatting is awful, especially if you care about internationalization (which is very common).

Not sure what the issue with std::format would be here, you would have to elaborate. Obviously you need to specify a minimum version to have support for it at all.

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Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload by pjmlp on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:36AM (#49386584)
It works good enough for stuff I would be using Java or .NET for.

Not every application requires internationalisation, especially server code or internal company tools.

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