[jvanderbot]

Comparing clean sheet designs to legacy bug-patched, security-focused implementations is pretty common for early-days Rustaceans. Most of the touted simplicity and compile speed is lost now that all the easy problems have been solved by an over-general crate that solves way more than you need it to. The language isn't going to save you from ecosystem bloat, and it isn't going to magically handle all security problems, especially those that occur at design time not compile or runtime.

But for those who want to get a handle on how rust might be used for something other than yet another crypto project or a toy webasm app, TFA is exactly what the doctor ordered.

[tempaccount420]

Because writing a linked list by hand for the 1000th time is definitely safer than importing it from a crate with many collections already implemented... Not

[jvanderbot]

I'm not saying we shouldn't use crates. I'm agreeing that maybe we still have to be cautious about them, and in the "early days" when we were doing hand-coded stuff and saying "See how easy this is? Why was this hard in C" are long gone. For the very reasons you implied with your sarcasm.