r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme iReplacedItWithABuiltinFunction

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u/evilwizzardofcoding 1d ago

People laugh at this, but remember, someone caught a malicious PR to CURL during optimization 'cus the malicious code made a function take longer than it should.

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u/Bright-Historian-216 1d ago

to curl? i've heard about xz-lib (i think it was xz-lib?), but not to curl. can you link that?

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u/prams628 1d ago

The whole saga unfolding was quite insane!