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		iagooar 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails Even OpenAI uses npm to distribute their Codex CLI tool, which is built in Rust. Which is absurd to me, but I guess the alternatives are less convenient.

tonyhart7 3 months ago [–]

nah bro you got it wrong

its the other way around, codex started with TS then rewrite it to rust

iagooar 3 months ago | [–]

I know. But why keep distributing over npm?

tonyhart7 3 months ago | | [–]

because JS user would cry why codex is gone from npm

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