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So what if it is proprietary, there are other alternatives if you don't like to pay for tooling.

As for the rest, I really don't get the point, given the plethora of such tooling for C and C++, both as free beer and commercial for the last 25 years.




Yet we have basic vulnerabilities in C and C++ code ALL THE TIME. Empirically, even if perfect tooling exists, you still have to go out of your way to use it.

The right place to enforce these things are in the language and compiler (which I think you agree with). Make it impossible to make mistakes. Which is also why I'm not that excited about Zig. But the point is the tooling story for C isn't a land of puppies and roses, even in 2021.


In fact, because most people don't use them, yet another reason for Zig to have been designed better in regards to use-after-free.

Right now, in regards to security in systems programming, Zig is no better than using Modula-2 compiler.




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