Endo Meeting: Hermes and Dæmos
Channel: Agoric
Date: 16/10/2023

Come for the demos, stay for the plausible etymology of “hermit”.

We discussed the next round of ReactNative roadblocks: allowing Lockdown to function properly on a JavaScript platform that lacks both eval and async functions. SES currently uses eval to detect support for async functions and collect the corresponding intrinsics that need to be frozen. The async syntax makes these intrinsics undeniable (they cannot be censored by mere deletion of a property in the transitive closure of properties of the global object, or even other APIs).

Then, Pet Daemon demos from Dan Connolly and Aaron Davis. We had a good conversation about permission management user interfaces, and how to improve on the skeleton currently in Endo Familiar Chat.