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Re:Deno 1.0 by 0beah on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:01PM (#23173385)
Except that with Deno, everything IO related is turned off by default and has to be granted access before it becomes a process. It's the first bullet point on the landing page.

Here is the page with more detail. https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/permissions

It can even restrict access down to a specific directory or host. This is cool.

Whereas any NPM module can map your subnet, lift your .ssh directory, and yoink environment variables, wily-nily.

It's happened before.

Re:Deno 1.0 by sterlind on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:12PM (#23173483)
That still doesn't prevent imported modules from yoinking anything you did grant access to, though. For instance, if my service connects to a DB then `uuid` can slurp the contents.

It'd be nice to have some capability model where modules can only access things through handles passed to them, but probably infeasible for a project like this.

Re:Deno 1.0 by mrkurt on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:16PM (#23173514)
You can actually run things as Workers in Deno and get some sandboxing abilities: https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/master/docs/runtime/wo...