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> Rust is not a sandbox language. Even the "safe" subset of the language is still just about preventing bugs, but nowhere near a watertight sandbox required to
by eridius 8y ago
> Rust is not a sandbox language. Even the "safe" subset of the language is still just about preventing bugs, but nowhere near a watertight sandbox required to protect programmers and users from straight-up malware running in their own program.
Not only that, but even just the act of building a dependency is unsafe as dependencies can specify build scripts (which is just Rust code that's compiled and executed prior to building the crate).