Firebloom is more of a custom compiler/toolchain than a dialect of C—apart from annotations to relate pointer+length parameters, etc., it is still just C.
Reminds me of this blurb from djb's qmail security guarantee [0]:
I've mostly given up on the standard C library. Many of its facilities, particularly stdio, seem designed to encourage bugs. A big chunk of qmail is stolen from a basic C library that I've been developing for several years for a variety of applications. The stralloc concept and getln() make it very easy to avoid buffer overruns, memory leaks, and artificial line length limits.
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Firebloom is more of a custom compiler/toolchain than a dialect of C—apart from annotations to relate pointer+length parameters, etc., it is still just C.
Reminds me of this blurb from djb's qmail security guarantee [0]:
[0]: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
I mean, the annotations are supposed to be simple C attributes wrapped in macros, so even them are just C