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by beeboobaa3 745 days ago
> With proper configuration, it can be very useful towards this end.

It can. I think it's fair to assume that the standard developer setup to let them be productive is not this proper configuration.

> Can you suggest any preferred alternative methods of isolation that offer similar efficacy and ease of use for quickly running complete software systems made by an unknown/untrusted actor?

No. It's a hard problem! If it was easily solved we wouldn't be seeing all this development surrounding e.g. WebAssembly