Posted by robinhouston 8 hours ago
Then, any appearance of unprintable characters should also be flagged. There are rather few legitimate uses of some zero-width characters, like ZWJ in emoji composition. Ideally all such characters should be inserted as \xNNNN escape sequences, and not literal characters.
Simple lint rules would suffice for that, with zero AI involvement.
Emojis are another abomination that should be removed from Unicode. If you want pictures, use a gif.
I have considered allowing a short list that does not include emojis, joining characters, and so on - basically just currency symbols, accent marks, and everything else you'd find in CP-1521 but never got around to it.
grep -P '[\x{200B}\x{200C}\x{200D}\x{FEFF}]' code.ts
Is there ever a circumstance where the invisible characters are both legitimate and you as a software developer wouldn't want to see them in the source code?
Are people using eval() in production code?
I am wondering how that they've LLM, are people using them for making new kind of malicious codes more sophisticated than before?
My clawbot & other AI agents already have this figured out.
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