A very good talk. I think the rug-pull risk is real and especially detrimental for independent developers who are not employed to do kernel work by large companies.

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PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today.

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The Rust blog reports on a malicious crate, called proc-macro1, that was uploaded to the crates.io repository.