Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default

Re:Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default by skybrian on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:05PM (#18116319)

Overall this looks great, but I wonder whether extensions will be allowed that are written in compiled languages? Dart, Go (via Gopher), Kotlin, and so on? Is Webassembly supported?

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Re:Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default by coolspot on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:18PM (#18116466)

Both Chrome and Firefox support WebAssembly in extensions.

So technically you can write whole extension in WebAssebly with thin wrapper written in js.

Although "Starting today, Chrome Web Store will no longer allow extensions with obfuscated code." which might be an issue.

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Re:Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default by adrianmonk on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:00PM (#18116768)

Can't answer whether they will, but in theory they could. Allow devs to upload their source, then using reproducible builds and/or cloud builds, verify that the supplied source compiles down to the submitted binary.

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Re:Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default by timsneath on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:56AM (#18119347)

Dart transpiles to minified JavaScript, so that's certainly viable.

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