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Comment by minimaxir

> it will eventually be project suicide to pull tricks like this

The only reason that the jqwik incident didn't blow up much outside of the tech sphere is because it is a relatively niche library and there wasn't damage. If something like React or numpy did the same thing and real code got deleted, chaos would ensue.

The author admitted there were personal and professional consequences in their blog post despite the small surface area.

parent minimaxir 4 months ago

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