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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2019 22:05:13 CET Adrian Cochrane

   A couple toots got me thinking:

   I really think the biggest offront overcomplicating software today is the web browser. Ultimately I think the fix is to remove JavaScript and give the browser more flexibility to present webpages however works best for it's UI devices.

   But I do hear from people who would miss having The Web as a cross-platform app platform. Personally I think the web fills that role very poorly, and the only it does is because of corporate politics I think are ruining The Web.

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   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2019 22:24:09 CET Adrian Cochrane

     in reply to

     I'm not personally interested in using it, but if you do want a cross-platform app framework I've got a few ideas:

     The key would be to make the sandbox itself as simple as possible, in order to best secure it against any Spectre-style vulnerabilities. Which btw Google doesn't think ever can be truly fixed. That is if it can be a library running within the sandbox, or if it can be compiletime developer tool, it most definitely should be.

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   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2019 22:33:09 CET Adrian Cochrane

     in reply to

     Another thing that comes to mind when I think of an app sandbox like that is maybe it's bytecode (having a compiler can simplify things) should be based on a purely-functional Haskell-style "GMachine".

     That can be very efficient to JIT, and (given the I/O is performed using Functional-Reactive Programming) allows the order of execution to be more in control of the interpretor rather than the sandboxed program. Maybe randomising the order of execution can help thwart vulnerabilities?

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