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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by gpm on Saturday November 01, 2025 @12:22PM (#45782910)
Are you counting ones that involve running malicious code in a sandbox and not just trusted code on untrusted input? Because then I'd agree, but that's a much harder and different problem.

My impression is that for the trusted code untrusted input case it hasn't been that many, but I could be wrong.

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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by bigyabai on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:44PM (#45783632)
It depends, what language was the sandbox written in?
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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by gpm on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:47PM (#45783668)
Sandboxes are difficult independent of language, see all the recent speculation vulnerabilities for instance. Sure, worse languages make it even harder, but I think we're straying from the original topic of "python/ruby" by considering sandboxes at all.
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