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crates.io Postmortem: Broken Crate Downloads
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False dichotomy much!
See this postmortem from Cloudflare as an example.
Under "What went wrong", point 1 and 3:
And on what needed to done, point 4
See! Plenty of procedural talk in that postmortem. Plenty of corporate talk too. But you have to mention that a bad backtracking regex was used. And you have to mention that using regexes with no complexity guarantees was glaringly wrong. To not have done so would have been silly. To not even come close to mentioning those things beyond the specific error in that specific regex, and you wouldn't have been taken seriously.