SafeScript launches a secure JavaScript subset
What happened
On November 9, 2026, Hacker News featured SafeScript, a strict subset of JavaScript for running untrusted code. Its code compiles to plain JavaScript and to PHP. The report also gives the compiler size: about 48 KB minified and about 12 KB after gzip. The report covers SafeScript's purpose, compile targets and compiler size, with no further developments.
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- Hacker News front pageShow HN: SafeScript, a safe version of JavaScript for executing untrusted code
SafeScript 是用于执行不可信代码的 JavaScript 严格子集，可编译为普通 JS 和 PHP，压缩编译器约 ~48 KB，gzip 后约 ~12 KB。
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