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by KsassPeuk 1498 days ago
> but much more limited

I agree and I disagree ;)

I agree because having a type system that directly provides the guarantee that whole classes of runtime error cannot happen provides fast feedback during development at a low cost.

I disagree because even in a press button (+ tuning) approach, you can prove things with Frama-C that the Rust compiler cannot prove (reason why there is runtime bound-checking, implementation defined behavior for integer overflow and so on in Rust). But also because you can prove much more advance properties than "just" absence of runtime errors.

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And vice versa; Frama-C doesn't attempt to prove the absence of data races, last I checked.
In fact there exists a plugin that can do that but it is currently not free:

https://frama-c.com/fc-plugins/mthread.html

(And by the way since it is not done by typing it is hard to use on legacy code)