Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

[Timon Gehr]

On 1/12/23 07:25, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Yes; _source code_. This is the crux of the matter. Can't incrementally 
fix source code that you don't have access to.