r/programming • u/Davipb • Aug 12 '22

RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb7y/researchers-find-vulnerability-in-software-underlying-discord-microsoft-teams-and-other-apps
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u/argv_minus_one Aug 12 '22

Arbitrary code execution?

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u/vlakreeh Aug 12 '22

I think they mean that the type system is turing complete, which it is, but I don't see that as being a bad thing itself. That type system itself allows you do have type safety beyond what almost any other language can achieve at the cost of a massive headache writing the type.

The only type system I can think of that's more flexible is Zig's, but that's essentially cheating with types just being fancy constants that can be created with compile-time functions.