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Interestingly, chrony is C. I thought for sure it'd be a more modern, safer language — but no, this level of code quality is clearly possible in C. I'm honest

Interestingly, chrony is C. I thought for sure it'd be a more modern, safer language — but no, this level of code quality is clearly possible in C. I'm honestly surprised. Congratulations to the author, though!

zackelan 9y ago
Early releases of Chrony go as far back as 2006 [0] so the original codebase predates Rust, Go, etc. 0: https://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/tag/?h=1.20 https://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/tag/?h=1.20
xorcist 9y ago
There are other high quality C codebases, vsftpd, postfix, dovecot come to mind, maybe openssh nowadays.
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  Most of djb's stuff comes to mind as well.
- namibj 9y ago
  I'll add sqlite too, and also, cough, seL4. The latter is cough "secure due to being written in C" cough.....
paulajohnson 9y ago
Same here. So what is chrony doing differently? Is it just that the developer(s) are really clever, or are they using static analysis, or a better coding standard, or what? This is important. We don't often get the chance to compare side-by-side implementations of the same requirement, so when big differences turn up we need to understand why.