The Chromium team's work to align web platform security boundaries with the operating system's security boundaries is really amazing. This is like upgrading the web from MS-DOS + Windows 3.1 to a real operating system.
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I understand why Chrome is doing this, both because the ability to construct robust security primitives outside the OS is less than we thought (ie spectre) and because unsafe languages make process separation more necessary.
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But I'm sad because I agree with Dan Ingalls: "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." We should be able to create security boundaries inside the language, and it seems like we mostly can't.
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