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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by vezzy-fnord on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:40PM (#7039667)
There's also AT&T Labs' memory-safe dialect of C called Cyclone: http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/

It's been around since 2006, but I haven't really heard of anyone using it. I wonder why.

Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by berdario on Friday January 10, 2014 @06:35PM (#7040434)
Cyclone has been dead since years (the last release is dated 5 May 2006)

It never compiled on 64bit architectures, and to get it to compile with 4.0 or 4.1 (newer versions of gcc won't work) you need to fetch it from SVN (last commit is dated May 2009)... and obviously: no distribution still ship such an old version of the build tools... you'd need something like debian lenny, which does not even receive security updates anymore