deno/Roadmap.md

Deno Roadmap

API and Feature requests should be submitted as PRs to this document.

Security Model (partially implemented)

• We want to be secure by default; user should be able to run untrusted code, like the web.
• Threat model:
  • Modifiying/deleting local files
  • Leaking private information
• Disallowed default:
  • Network access
  • Local write access
  • Non-JS extensions
  • Subprocesses
  • Env access
• Allowed default:
  • Local read access.
  • argv, stdout, stderr, stdin access always allowed.
  • Maybe: temp dir write access. (But what if they create symlinks there?)
• The user gets prompted when the software tries to do something it doesn't have the privilege for.
• Have an option to get a stack trace when access is requested.
• Worried that granting access per file will give a false sense of security due to monkey patching techniques. Access should be granted per program (js context).

Example security prompts. Options are: YES, NO, PRINT STACK

Program requests write access to "~/.ssh/id_rsa". Grant? [yNs]
http://gist.github.com/asdfasd.js requests network access to "www.facebook.com". Grant? [yNs]
Program requests access to environment variables. Grant? [yNs]
Program requests to spawn `rm -rf /`. Grant? [yNs]

• cli flags to grant access ahead of time --allow-all --allow-write --allow-net --allow-env --allow-exec
• in version two we will add ability to give finer grain access --allow-net=facebook.com

Top-level Await (Not Implemented)

#471

This will be put off until at least deno2 Milestone1 is complete. One of the major problems is that top-level await calls are not syntactically valid TypeScript.

[Broken] List dependencies of a program.

Currently broken: https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/1011

% deno --deps http://gist.com/blah.js
http://gist.com/blah.js
http://gist.com/dep.js
https://github.com/denoland/deno/master/testing.js
%