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Guy Bedford
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Guy Bedford's personal blog at guybedford.com covers programming and web. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Secure Modular Runtimes for JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-12, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Guy Bedford's writing on JavaScript modules and runtimes, including a proposal for secure modular runtimes using import maps and a SystemJS 2.0 alpha announcement.
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Guy Bedford
Most-linked posts?
- Secure Modular Runtimes for JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-10
What Hacker News says?
This is so obviously what needs to happen, it's really surprising it's not a feature in all major languages by now. I bet in 10 years time, giving dependencies complete control would seem crazy. Here is an interesting proposal on how to possibly get there in JS with import maps: https://guybedford.com/secure-modular-runtimes Deno uses ambient permissions for the entire process and unfortunately missed the opportunit…
Comment linking /secure-modular-runtimes
on “Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies”Submitted Secure Modular Runtimes as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSee also the recent alpha release of SystemJS https://guybedford.com/systemjs-2.0-alpha
Comment linking /systemjs-2.0-alpha
on “Shimport: Use JavaScript modules in all browsers, including dynamic imports”Submitted Secure Modular Runtimes for JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussion