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		adastra22 on Nov 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-... I think the whole point is to prevent build scripts from doing arbitrary things. The sandbox should give access to the source code being built, record changes to these files (and/or new files generated in the same directories), and that's about it.

insanitybit on Nov 11, 2023 [–]

That's a cool idea but it would be a major breaking change. For proc-macros it's less of a major breaking change, though it is absolutely still one.

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