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Re:The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) by JoeSmithson on Saturday May 02, 2020 @06:07PM (#23055295)
I mean, do those people who download and compile code not then generally... run it...?

Perhaps I'm missing something but the issue here seems to be whether you trust the source, not whether syscalls are made at compile time or run time?

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Re:The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) by pjmlp on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:50AM (#23057558)
Trusting the compiler, CI/CD pipelines and verifiable builds.
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