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burnt-resistor • today at 2:49 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

More than that, we need capability-based languages. No capability passed to it, no permission.

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mike_hearn • today at 5:16 PM

Why not object capability languages: https://blog.plan99.net/why-not-capability-languages-a8e6cbd...

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kibwen • today at 2:58 PM

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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