In this blog post I take a look at how well GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket support reviewers in finding malicious code changes in pull requests.
  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    This doesn’t work for code bases written in non-English languages. Especially east asian languages.

    Any line containing an identifier that is also a word would be highlighted.

    More and more programming languages are supporting unicode identifiers for this use case.

    • mrkiteEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      So it won’t work for 0.0001% of all github projects.

      • sndrtj@feddit.nl
        5·
        11 months ago

        I’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese.

        Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.

      • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I know right.

        It’s wild that an American company primarily doing business in the West would have a bias towards English.

    • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
      6·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, just don’t. Allowing to code in anything other than English is a disservice, plain and simple.

      Inb4, I’m not being US-centric, Latin ain’t even my native alphabet.