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Not working in those fields either, but i don’t understand how people can be comfortable writing life-or-death code in C either. Anything that doesn’t involve a
by bsaul 8y ago
Not working in those fields either, but i don’t understand how people can be comfortable writing life-or-death code in C either. Anything that doesn’t involve a heavy dose of formal proof or automatic validation of properties of your code seems irresponsible as well.
- axw10 8y agoC is very safe if you are experienced and don't do anything fancy. What else would you use apart from Ada? I wouldn't trust any language with a large runtime like Python, Java, and yes, also not Haskell. C is very amenable to proofs that use Knuth's proof style. Also of course Frama C exists. EDIT: If Rust is more mature, it may be an option, but I'd wait at least 5 more years until (if?) it is widely used.
- bsaul 8y agoocaml with coq prover ?