>The C language: One thing Unix systems like FreeBSD and NetBSD have fantasized about for a while is coming up with their own dialect of C to implement the kern

>The C language: One thing Unix systems like FreeBSD and NetBSD have fantasized about for a while is coming up with their own dialect of C to implement the kernel in a safer manner. This has never gone anywhere except, maybe, for Linux relying on GCC-only extensions. Microsoft, on the other hand, had the privilege of owning a C compiler, so they did do this with NT, which is written in Microsoft C. As an example, NT relies on Structured Exception Handling (SEH), a feature that adds try/except clauses to handle software and hardware exceptions. I wouldn’t say this is a big plus, but it’s indeed a difference. Welp, that's an unfortunate use of that capability given what we see today in language development when it comes to secondary control flows.