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I'd argue it's more of a culture thing, not technical thing.

In both JavaScript and Rust, it's normal/encouraged to just add a tiny dependency to the package manager. The communities even pride themselves, that they have such good package managers to allow this.

It's this "yeah, there is a crate for this tiny function I need, let's just include it" mentality that makes the ecosystem vulnerable.

People need to be responsible for whatever they include, either pay the price by checking all versions up front, or pay it by risking shipping a vulnerable program that it's much harder to retract than a JavaScript frontend.



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