Comment on Roblox Game Devs Duped by Malicious npm Packages
atheken@programming.dev 1 year agoAlso, as far as I can tell, they’re talking about devs that are building on the Roblox platform, not devs that are building the platform.
In other words, random devs of varying skill levels getting name-squatted.
It’s not good, but including Roblox in the title is definitely misleading/clickbait.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
It is a library to work with Roblox, saying Roblox isn’t misleading. I can agree that “Roblox devs” is misleading though.
atheken@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s misleading because it’s irrelevant and makes it sound like a platform breach.
Try replacing Roblox with “Foozsplatz” and the implication of severity are completely different.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
I’m confused, in this hypothetical is Foozsplatz a non sense word or is it meant to be a game like Roblox? If you mean the first, then yeah, obviously replacing a proper noun with gibberish changes the implication. If you mean the second then no, it would have the same implication.
atheken@programming.dev 1 year ago
It literally doesn’t matter. You can remove the word and the nature of the problem being discussed is still the same. What platform is being targeted has nothing to do with the example problem.