I wrote a Rust crate for abuse reporting because apparently Python wasn't enough

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You know that feeling when you’re reading a spec, see “reference implementation: Python” and “reference implementation: JavaScript”, and think “huh, nobody bothered with Rust for this”?

That was me reading the XARF v4 spec.

XARF — the eXtended Abuse Reporting Format — is a JSON schema for describing abuse incidents. Spam. DDoS. Phishing. Malware. Copyright violations. Compromised servers. Botnets. All the things that keep abuse desks awake at night, but in a machine-readable format that two organizations can actually exchange without someone sending a PDF attachment.

Abuse-Reporting on Hunter Wigelsworth

I wrote a Rust crate for abuse reporting because apparently Python wasn't enough