Idea: The “left-pad index”, a score for Rust crates that combines small size with popularity. The goal would be to find potential candidates for additions to the standard library, or at least merging into larger crates.
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I know lots of folks won't like this, but my view is that you have to vet package repositories *before* offering them. Auto-pulling of deps that aren't vetted as meeting minimal quality, trustworthiness, and usefulness conditions shouldn't be a thing.
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The debate about tradeoffs in update agility have raged for decades around this point. Who is going to do that work? Are they paid? Why do you trust them? How do you verify you're getting authentic advice from a real auditor? Reviews are great for app stores, but for OSS?
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