Unsafe Blocks [LWN.net]

Unsafe Blocks

Posted Apr 28, 2015 9:37 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Unsafe Blocks by Cyberax
Parent article: Rust Once, Run Everywhere

Java tried to allow untrusted code (for applets) by using language-level isolation. We all know how well it went.

I thought it went okay? There were Java sandbox bugs but the record is surely better than Javascript, and a long way ahead of anything that doesn't use language isolation (ActiveX).

Java applets didn't take off because they were generally crappy in other respects, stuck in a fixed-size box, and could hardly interact with the surrounding web page - not because the security model was fundamentally broken.

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