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this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2026
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Most of that has nothing to do with a rewrite, and I don't think the attack surface of an Electron app is actually any better because it'll depend on bloody
left-pador whatever.Yeah. Npm definitively is safer than cargo /s.
Any non-retarded company would just verify that their dependencies are secure. And then self-host their own cargo repo to avoid supply chain attacks.
This is a company issue, not a language issue. And if it were a language issue, JavaScript would be worse anyway.