this is yet another competing standard of static analysis.
No, it isn’t.
Those are linters. They might or might not discover problematic use of unsafe language features lurking in existing code.
This proposal is a new iteration of the language and standard library. It would provide safe language features for preventing such problems existing in the first place.
Right now, we have to compile the compiler for this ourselves. Pardon my skepticism; I’m not sure this is mature enough.
Edit: I’m talking about the project not the idea. Sean Baxter has shown up everywhere for awhile talking about this. I think his idea has a ton of maturity. I don’t know that the project itself has enough maturity to mainline yet.
That’s fair. I think the last word in the URL does a good job of representing the implementation’s claimed level of maturity:
draft
:)
You said
This proposal is a new iteration of the language and standard library. It would provide safe language features for preventing such problems existing in the first place.
Either it’s a draft or it’s a new iteration of the language. Can’t be both.
