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> So describing the situation as "nobody knows what 17% of the top crates.io packages do" is an overstatement. Noting that you willfully cut the qualifying "vi
by sgbeal 6mo ago
> So describing the situation as "nobody knows what 17% of the top crates.io packages do" is an overstatement.
Noting that you willfully cut the qualifying "virtually" from that quote, thereby transforming it to over-stated:
> Let me rephrase this, 17% of the most popular Rust packages contain code that virtually nobody knows what it does
- woodruffw 6mo agoThat wasn't intentional. But also, I don't think "virtually" actually changes the meaning substantially; it has the same conventional meaning in that position as "effectively" or "might as well be nobody."