On the importance of pre-populated inputs in apps designed for consumers to create games: https://boingboing.net/2015/08/24/a-game-making-app-for-everyone.html
This principle probably applies to a ton of other domains too.
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https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/ has an interesting distinction between "physical" and "logical" hash of a tarball.
By storing the hash of the decompressed tarball contents (i.e. the logical hash), they can verify the validity of files without needing to keep the tarball around.
As Rust grows in popularity as a systems language, I expect that someone will develop a dynamic language explicitly designed with great interop in mind.
C++ games seem to use Lua for this, and I've seen Java projects use Groovy.
Are there any up-and-coming contenders for Rust?
OpenBSD's pledge is intentionally designed to be simple and easy to add to projects. It's still more granular than I expected: there are several different network permissions, and even a separate permission for tape drives!