So, serde seems to be downloading and running a binary on the system without informing the user and without any user consent. Does anyone have any background information on why this is, and how this is supposed to be a good idea?
dtolnay seems like a smart guy, so I assume there is a reason for this, but it doesn’t feel ok at all.
You can read the source of build.rs and and proc macros executed during a build, but do you? Does anyone do that every time they add a new dependency?
When adding a new dependency I almost always go over the source code to see what kind of performance to expect. If
build.rsis there - checking it takes a single click so yes to that too. Derive macro - less frequently, but you have to do it when documentation is non existent.