Yeah lua is a weird example because it’s actually amazing at this. Lua gives you a massive amount of control over what scripts can access.
It is much safer than pulling in an opaque C library that works via ffi. Eg a nodejs native module. Those are written in C and can indeed sell your data to North Korea. (Just like any other package in npm.)
I’m excited by the idea of being able to depend on 3rd party code without it having access to my entire OS.
It is much safer than pulling in an opaque C library that works via ffi. Eg a nodejs native module. Those are written in C and can indeed sell your data to North Korea. (Just like any other package in npm.)
I’m excited by the idea of being able to depend on 3rd party code without it having access to my entire OS.