Dev Diary 05/10/2018

• found out the float parsing bug in the rust std library was already known for two years, but nobody bothered to document it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54843
• quickly sketched a spec for the cbor subset suitable for representing legacy messages: https://github.com/sunrise-choir/spec/blob/master/spec.md#cbor-encoding-of-legacy-data
• fixed the hopefully last mismatches between js and rust legacy message handling, except for the unicode decoding issue:
  • https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54845
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Invalid_code_points
  • %NeOkZhP...
  • https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
  • https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/23280

This was not a fun day of work. The most productive thing might have been the fuzzers running in the background =/