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> However, that doesn't mean there wasn't a problem. There was a ton of negativity around "unsafe" when the author first released the code, and it has kind of become a meme at this point. If a project consistently uses code in an unsafe way, is it really worth spending your time vetting it for your production use case? There are plenty of web severs out there, pick one that aligns with your goals.

Should people wait until credit-card data or PII is leaked due to security vulnerabilities? The problem with security is that it impacts more than just the programmers using the framework, it impacts everyone. Does the author deserve the nastiness? No. Do security issues need to be reported, and if not fixed, called out? Yes, for big and advertised projects issues like that need to be reported. If not, there will be users that would naively expect the web-framework they're using to be somewhat secure.

The framework had a professional looking website advertising the project, it had good documentation, a user-friendly API. It advertised a actix open-source community. Had over a million downloads. I would say that expecting actix to be run like a somewhat professional project is not a strange assumption.

The way it was called out was pretty terrible though, and I doubt anyone is happy with what happened.

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If personal info or CC data gets leaked, the company which used this library/framework will be found legally liable. Using random code from github is not a valid product development strategy.

The author can write their entire code in an unsafe block for all they care. The buck stops with those that use the framework and that is made quite clear in the license.

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Welp.

Time to close up shop folks, we didn't personally perform a deep security audit of every single open source project we depend on!