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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014) by teraflop on Thursday December 17, 2020 @10:09PM (#25463359)
You could always sandbox it. This has actually already been done at least once: years ago, there used to be a "pure Java" JDBC driver for SQLite that was generated by compiling the original C code to a MIPS binary, and then translating the result into Java bytecode.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080703234650/http://www.zentus....

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Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014) by ReactiveJelly on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:31AM (#25464196)
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...

Firefox did the same recently to sandbox Graphite (some font dependency)

C/C++ --> WebAsm --> sandboxed AOT compiled native code

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