E is a clean slate no compromise language, built for object-capability security and distributed computing. JavaScript is one of the leakiest languages ever, created almost by accident, whose massive success imposes severe legacy compatibility constraints on its evolution. Caja is the surprising discovery of E-like security in a simple compatible subset of JavaScript, influencing recent EcmaScript standards to support such subsetting well. Time permitting, we will briefly touch on our future direction, Dr. SES—Distributed Resilient Secure EcmaScript—bringing E-like distributed computing to JavaScript.
Mark S. Miller is a research scientist at Google, main designer of the E and Caja secure programming languages, a pioneer of agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing, an architect of the Xanadu hypertext publishing system, and a representative to the EcmaScript committee.
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