alt Hacker NewsYour proposal still contains a security hole, since it still allows executing cmake or something similar. Adding sandboxing in some parts/steps of a build system has no benefits, as soon as the system as whole has loopholes allowing bypassing such sandboxing. It's like adding more locks to the front door, when the backdoor has no locks at all.
Security is not, and in fact can never be, all-or-nothing. An imperfect solution is better than no solution. Developers have the reasonable expectation that opening a project in VS Code does not upload their home directory to a remote server. Performing a full build of a project is a different operation with different associated expectations.