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		unsafecast on Dec 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No Ghosts The idea is that you don't look. A handle is opaque. You don't care or depend on what's in it. Doesn't matter if it's actually a number or a string. As for sending over a network, that's the low level details. You can keep high-level types most of the way.

skybrian on Dec 2, 2022 [–]

Types work within a single process, but that's pretty limiting. Most people are dealing with multi-process systems, one way or another.

There is a trend towards more sandboxing - the sandboxes and pinholes model described in the article.

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