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It is C. It is just written with the aid of formal methods. It would be nice if all software were written that way. That said, if you want another language “resembling C”, there is always WUFFS:

https://github.com/google/wuffs

The output of the WUFFS compiler certainly resembles C because it is C.



> It is C. It is just written with the aid of formal methods.

It is not C in the sense that many of the usual reasons to use C no longer apply. E.g. a common reason to use C is the availability of libraries, but most popular libraries will not pass that analyser so you can't use them if you're depending on that analyser. E.g. a common reason to use C is standard tooling for e.g. automated refactoring, but will those standard tools preserve analyser-passing? Probably not.




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