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There are advantages in being able to have a security barrier between your code and that of your customers, and that you can push releases etc without having to update every downstream consumer.

More importantly though, we're working on incorporating storage in a meaningful way.

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If the third party code is running in the same process than the security is managed by V8 (or whatever runtime). Does such a thing exist in other managed languages? Does anyone know if C# or Java(for example) have the concept of untrusted libraries?

You could think of "untrusted library" as of a wrapper around an HTTP API. The code you don't run, but depend upon it's results.

Dunno about managed runtimes, but the whole thing sounds isomorphic to running a bunch of untrusted docker containers in a single qemu VM.

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