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kibwentoday at 2:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

First we need capability-based OSes, like we should have had decades ago if worse-is-better hadn't stuck us with Unix. I don't need to care whether or not a program was written in a capability-aware language if the OS fundamentally takes care of that for me.


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grommztoday at 3:56 PM

HarmonyOS is a capability based OS. I don't know why anyone in China is still using Rust. The biggest social engineering hack was for the Rust team to convince developers that it is a safe language.

ptxtoday at 3:14 PM

FreeBSD does this with Capsicum: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Capsicum