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.

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Looks like I missed that, I was checking locally but I must have been checking an outdated version of the package. I’d feel better about it if it compiled on the user’s machine, which is the impression I was getting.

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