Cyclone (programming language)
| Cyclone | |
|---|---|
| Designed by | AT&T Labs |
| Developer | Cornell University |
| First appeared | 2002 |
| Stable release | 1.0
/ May 8, 2006 |
| Website | cyclone |
| Influenced by | |
| C | |
| Influenced | |
| Rust, Project Verona | |
The Cyclone programming language was intended to be a safe dialect of the C language. It avoids buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities that are possible in C programs by design, without losing the power and convenience of C as a tool for system programming. It is no longer supported by its original developers, with the reference tooling not supporting 64-bit platforms. The Rust language is mentioned by the original developers for having integrated many of the same ideas Cyclone had.
Cyclone development was started as a joint project of Trevor Jim from AT&T Labs Research and Greg Morrisett's group at Cornell University in 2001. Version 1.0 was released on May 8, 2006.