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Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen (benhoyt.com)
submitted 3 months ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You can run rustc directly! You just need to pass about 30 different parameters to it as well as a list of all the dependencies you use and...

Look, it works for small projects.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So i could theoretically script a wrapper?

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

I don't see why not. Cargo is fundamentally just a fancy wrapper around rustc, anyway. Sure, it's a really fancy wrapper that does a lot of stuff but it's entirely possible to just call rustc yourself.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

The only reason to do this is if you're directly integrated Rust into an existing build system (e.g. Bazel). It's not going to help with this problem at all.