Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

[Walter Bright]

On 2/25/2014 7:36 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Yeah, it worked really great for C.
>
> Developers created C compilers in other systems and never ported lint
> as part of the process.
>
> End result being a portable macro assembler, as safe as, writing in pure assembly.

This is hyperbole. C's type system made it far safer than assembler.