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Re:Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension by littlestymaar on Sunday September 09, 2018 @07:59AM (#17945497)
No one is going to use Rust on any of these projects, because of political reasons and portability concerns (because LLVM doesn't target all platforms). But those two issues also apply to Checked C and I doubt any project you listed will ever use it either.
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Re:Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension by sanxiyn on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:50AM (#17945668)
Since BSD's system compiler is now LLVM, I think it's only a matter of time some enlightened BSD variant (OpenBSD maybe?) tries something like Checked C.
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Re:Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension by pjmlp on Sunday September 09, 2018 @10:43AM (#17946084)
I don't know what programming language or extensions they will ever use, but this year's Linux Security Summit was pretty clear that are lots of work to do regarding Kernel Self-Protection Project still need to be done.

And that is just one UNIX variant.

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