dlangbot for Telegram - D compiler in your pocket

[Dechcaudron]

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 05:50:56 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote:
> Regarding vulnerabilities, if there are any I and 
> authors/maintainers of dlang-tour will be interested in fixing 
> them ASAP. After all, dlangbot uses tour's code under the hood.

Then I assume all trivial vulnerabilities are taken care of. I 
just thought you had implemented this from scratch to run on a 
computer of yours.

>
> Executable downloading would require me to rewrite the 
> back-end. I am not sure if it'll worth it because it's not 
> clear how safe that would be for a user and how usable that 
> feature will be. I mean, if user already has x86-64 Linux 
> machine (that's what dlangbot uses) then will it be any simpler 
> and faster to message the bot with code, download an executable 
> and run it than compiling it using installed compiler?

Here you are assuming the user has a compiler installed on his 
machine. It may not be the case in some environments or for some 
people that are just toying around with the language.