V8 incorporates new sandbox

V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome,announcedthat its memory sandbox is no longer experimental.

Chrome 123 could therefore be considered to be a sort of "beta"release for the sandbox. This blog post uses this opportunity todiscuss the motivation behind the sandbox, show how it preventsmemory corruption in V8 from spreading within the host process, andultimately explain why it is a necessary step towards memory safety.