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by throwaway19937 1643 days ago
> Personally I'd like to see more runtimes with some concept of capabilities. As a user, I'd like to be able to say "this package cannot make outbound calls" rather than doing so at the program or host grain via layer 3 or layer 7 firewall rules. I think maybe Deno allows this, and I wouldn't be surprised if JVM or .Net did as well.

Unfortunately both of these platforms have removed their security controls - the JVM's SecurityManager[0] was deprecated and recent versions of .NET have dropped sandboxing. [0] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411