Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

[Walter Bright]

On 1/11/2023 8:15 PM, Tejas wrote:
> Well, the companies don't get to single-handedly decide what features to add or 
> deprecate, thanks to C spec being written by ISO, which is why they have 
> developed their own PLs.

Yes they can, as they add extensions to C all the time.


> But also, adding dynamic arrays to C won't make the currently existing C code 
> safer, the one they care about, because no one's gonna send the money to update 
> their C89/99/whatever code to C23/26. Even if they did, there's no guarantee 
> others would as well.

You can incrementally fix code, as I do with the dmd source code (originally in 
C) regularly.