Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?
The points made against switching to newer languages are valid. It will cost time, it will cost effort, it will take many years of work to convince stubborn maintainers to switch.<p>But it will not stop _everyone_ from adopting better languages, and their efforts will eventually surpass the older, less secure systems.<p>When there&#x27;s feature parity, each and every new exploit will be called out: &quot;this wouldn&#x27;t have happened in our system&#x27;. And that is a good thing. There _are_ better alternatives to C.<p>As for the point about how nobody is working on replacements, that&#x27;s wrong. There&#x27;s (partial) replacements for most coreutils written in rust, and a whole kernel has been under active development for years now.