Serde, a popular Rust (de)serialization project, has decided to ship its serde_derive macro as a precompiled binary. This has generated a fair amount of concern among some developers who highlight the future legal and technical issues this may pose, along with a potential for supply chain attacks.
Perhaps I missed it in the article/GitHub issue, but what was the reason for the change? Something something compile times??
Yup. The binary is precompiled proc macros. Should save a negligible amount of time…