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by acdha 2543 days ago
Doing this usefully does require more than just “does IO” — e.g. does that mean it can load another module, read a list of too-common passwords, write to a log file, or read your ~/.aws/credentials? Similarly, does allowing networking mean it can talk to anything or just a few well-known hostnames and ports?

This isn’t to say that it’s a bad idea but there are a ton of details which get annoying fast. I know the Rust community was looking into the options after the last NPM hijack was in the news but it sounded like it’d take years to make it meaningfully better.