VM’s aren’t great for development. The performance is poor and the DX is a pita so devs do dumb shit like mount their keys or entire home directory inside it negating the security benefits.

Thinking more along the lines of firejail seamlessly integrated with pip/venv/nvm/composer/whatever.

I think deno has greatly improved security sandboxing?

But yea you are 100% correct… It’s always going to be a never ending arms race. The status quo is just ridiculous.

with the amount of effort that goes into tooling on tooling on tooling wrapped in tooling we subject ourselves to, you would think we could come up with a secure-ish execution environment for all the random shit we run :\

I’ve been using https://tabby.tabbyml.com/

It’s useful maybe 5-10% of the time, more so if you write comments so basic they are pointless for humans. Seems pretty dumb about the project context.

it’s ok, it’s just a small change and it works on my local