Directionality controls for malicious code

[Doug Ewell]

Martin J. Dürst wrote:

> There are many other tools involved, in particular editors. There are
> probably way less serious editors than programming languages. Editors
> can clearly show problematic characters, so that users can decide
> whether they are dangerous or necessary (or both).

Given the publicity surrounding the "Trojan Source" paper, I'd be surprised if someone weren't already working on a Visual Studio Code extension that flags bidi controls in the editor window. It might already be available, for all I know.

Going into a panic and writing this into programming language specifications is what doesn't need to happen.

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