CloudABI support?
aberba
karabutaworld at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 23:01:54 UTC 2019
On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 19:26:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 17:36:46 UTC, Andrew Pennebaker
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I wish someone would teach all these projects that you need to
> describe what you're actually doing up front. AFAICT just from
> their other website at https://cloudabi.org, whose front page
> isn't much better than the one you gave, that would be "A new
> capability-based C runtime and APIs so that all your cloud
> applications can be secured and run portably across any OS we
> support." What's their solution for multi-arch, separate or fat
> binaries?
>
> Capabilities are nice, but I don't know enough about security
> tech to say if they're much better than other sandboxing tech.
> I suspect that security is still a hard sell for most, and it
> will not go farther than those few niches who care.
>
>> [...]
>
> Of course, as all it seems to need is libc support, some API
> wrappers in D, and maybe some ABI tweaks, which is no different
> than porting D to any other common platform.
It made sense to me. I use docker and yaml for configuration as a
web developer so maybe that's why. Normally an app will get its
configuration from envirinment variable or from the
system...hence it becomes less portable (dependent of the host
environment) and "insecure" like they claim.
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