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  • Also, Safari on Windows had low usage, and was probably a pain to maintain. Swift cross platform is more about abstracting out Apple specific things (like the standard library and UI toolkit). Apple has already been investing multi-year efforts into Swift on the server for longer than Safari on Windows existed. The last couple versions of Swift (~3-4years of development) have been almost entirely focused on safe concurrency, which is intended for server-side development.






  • I believe they’re referring to lower down in the article, where the researchers analyzed existing extensions on the marketplace:

    After the successful experiment, the researchers decided to dive into the threat landscape of the VSCode Marketplace, using a custom tool they developed named ‘ExtensionTotal’ to find high-risk extensions, unpack them, and scrutinize suspicious code snippets.

    Through this process, they have found the following:

    • 1,283 with known malicious code (229 million installs).
    • 8,161 communicating with hardcoded IP addresses.
    • 1,452 running unknown executables.
    • 2,304 that are using another publisher’s Github repo, indicating they are a copycat.