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Re:Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the bro... by mr_toad on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:06AM (#27890263)
Not having direct access to the file system or the network or to a database are because of the sandbox, not because of JavaScript. You can do all those things in Node.

Web Assembly isn’t going to get rid of the sandbox.

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Re:Brython: an implementation of Python 3 running in the bro... by gchamonlive on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:42AM (#27891711)
You could have fakeroot, for instance: https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot

Sandbox doesn't imply not having a file system available (for example, for use in imports), I believe this is more of a historic limitation than a strictly technical one (just because we need the sandboxing concept).

I know. Fakeroot is not strictly sandboxing, but I think it illustrates the point.

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