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by lewantmontreal 1654 days ago
> You expect a linter to only have (read) access to the code it lints. It shouldn't be able to modify files, it shouldn't have network access etc. WASI has a pluggable capability-based security system.

That sounds absolutely amazing. Are there any desktop apps delivered like this yet? Any operating systems or some sort of runtimes (browsers?) that support them?

I want to install apps on my desktop without worrying about it too much. Sadly currently restricted to PWAs.

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> Are there any desktop apps delivered like this yet? Any operating systems or some sort of runtimes (browsers?) that support them?

Ever heard of apparmor?

That's per application security profiles, distributed with any applications on many Linux distributions.

firejails on linux as well. there are others but that's the only one I'm familiar with.