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Supply-chain-attack risk

Supply-chain-attack risk

Posted Feb 14, 2025 6:19 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Supply-chain-attack risk by taladar
Parent article: Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust

true, that's why you have to weigh the cost of writing your own in-house utility library vs accepting an external dependency tree and it's a judgement call specific to yourself and your team's capability on which you choose. having a read through the library you are considering can help clarify if its something that adds sufficient value, and extends your capabilities or if it's over-complicated for what you need, a future liability for you, and a more focused in-house tool that uses the built-in functionality of the language runtime would be better. Either way you aren't exactly building the universe from scratch, you are still depending on the language, operating system, kernel, hardware, etc. built by tens of thousands of people, no one is writing code by manipulating magnetic flux with a steady hand or anything.


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