Why I Wrote Safescript
Safescript is a new programming language designed to enhance security against supply chain attacks. It is not Turing complete, allowing for formal proofs about information flow, which existing languages cannot guarantee. The language simplifies code management and refactoring while ensuring type safety and policy compliance.
- ▪Safescript is based on directed acyclic graph (DAG) structures and features a syntax similar to TypeScript.
- ▪It enables formal proofs about code behavior, such as ensuring that tokens do not reach undesired hosts.
- ▪The language is designed to be token efficient and reduces complexity, allowing for easy refactoring without extensive code changes.
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safescript — a programming language for AI eraUri Valevski3 min read·Just now--ListenSharePress enter or click to view image in full sizeSecuring services from supply chain attacks cannot be achieved using existing programming languages.The rate in which AI can write code and hide logic inside it makes it impossible to rely on human code review.Automated analysis is limited in Turing complete languages and is far from fail safe.The only way is a new language. this language must not be Turing complete in order to allow proving statements about passage of information through it.safescript is such a language (safescript.cc)Based on composition of DAG structures, it is immutable, has TS like syntax, but there is really no mainstream language like it.It enables you to formally prove things on…
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