Deno-style permission flags

[5hubham5ingh]

Hi, any thought about adding Deno-style permission flags like --allow-net or --allow-read, etc?

[saghul]

TBH I have not considered it.

I think such a change would require a large change in the architecture I don't think I'll make.

[5hubham5ingh]

I'm looking into creating bindings for OpenTUI, similar to what Go has, and thought it’d be awesome to develop TUIs in JS that can be distributed as lightweight bytecode via tjs.
If that works out, having built-in security in the runtime would be a huge plus.
I’ve looked into the source code and realise it would be a big change, so I thought I should make a case for it here.

[guest271314]

Miss an -A and get prompted. That applies to compile, too. Sometimes I've had to recompile just due to those missing setting those permissions initially.

There's also --unstable-net in Deno just to use WebTransport.

Kinda overboard.

I've personally never not wanted an API or context permissible.