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Are malicious packages a problem for Julia?

• eigenspace 6y ago
  As far as I'm aware, it has not been a problem yet, though it's likely only a matter of time as the language community grows. I see conversations happening regularly on how to detect and combat this though. It's a hard problem to combat, because fundamentally, package code must be able to do arbitrary things. One advantage julia has though is that packages tend to be written in pure julia, which makes the duty of checking and detecting malicious code much easier.