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| infer | SonarJava | |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | 0 | |
| 14,456 | 1,050 | |
| 0.7% | 0.8% | |
| 9.8 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | about 23 hours ago | |
| OCaml | Java | |
| MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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infer
- Should I Rust or should I Go
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Enforcing Memory Safety?
Using infer, someone else exploited null-dereference checks to introduce simple affine types in C++. Cppcheck also checks for null-dereferences. Unfortunately, that approach means that borrow-counting references have a larger sizeof than non-borrow counting references, so optimizing the count away potentially changes the semantics of a program which introduces a whole new way of writing subtly wrong code.
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Interesting ocaml mention in buck2 by fb
Meta/Facebook are long time OCaml users, their logo is on the OCaml website. Their static analysis tool and its predecessor are both written in OCaml.
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A plan for cybersecurity and grid safety
Efforts: Dependabot, CodeQL, Coverity, facebook's Infer tool, etc
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A quick look at free C++ static analysis tools
I notice there isn't fbinfer. It's pretty cool, and is used for this library.
- OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out
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Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language (Epic Games' new language with Simon Peyton Jones)
TBH, there's a non-zero amount of non-"ivory tower" tools you may have used that are written in functional languages. Say, Pandoc or Shellcheck are written in Haskell; Infer and Flow are written in OCaml. RabbitMQ and Whatsapp are implemented in Erlang (FB Messenger was too, originally; they switched to the C++ servers later). Twitter backend is (or was, at least) written in Scala.
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The State of Affine Types in C++?
- borrow-cpp which exploits some null dereference checks in the infer static analyzer to model some of borrow checking.
- Prusti: Static Analyzer for Rust
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Programming Breakthroughs We Need
> Maybe you could write tests as queries that would test a whole set of possible programs, not only the current version of your program at the moment.
I think that the future of programming is more sophisticated static analysis. Programmers will write statements like, "every code path that writes to the Payments database must have called validate_user()." Then, the tooling will confirm that rule with every commit.
We kind of have this already (for example, Facebook's Infer tool [0]), but I think it will become much more important in the coming decade.
SonarJava
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What are some alternatives?
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