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by masklinn 818 days ago
Not in the sense of differential vulnerabilities, since the standard library refuses to match any sort of modern standard.

It's also

1. not a solo dev

2. Daniel Lemire

3. a serious engineering and research effort: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10533.pdf

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This is the commit history: https://github.com/TkTech/can_ada/commits/main/

I guess you are right that there are 2 commits from a different dev, so it is technically not a solo project. I still wouldn't ever use this in production code.

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can_ada is just the python bindings.

The actual underlying project is at https://github.com/ada-url/ada

The can_ada repo threw me off, too. It looks super amateurish because of the lack of tests, fuzzers, etc.

But it appears that they've just exported the meat of the Ada project and left everything else upstream.