Editing Cyclone (programming language) (section)

{{Short description|Memory-safe dialect of the C programming language}}
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{{Infobox programming language
 | name                   = Cyclone
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 | released               = {{Start date and age|2002}}
 | designer               = [[AT&T Labs]]
 | developer              = [[Cornell University]]
 | latest release version = 1.0
 | latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2006|05|08}}
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 | influenced by          = [[C (programming language)|C]]
 | influenced             = [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]], [[Project Verona]]
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 | website                = {{URL|http://cyclone.thelanguage.org}}
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 | discontinued           = Yes<ref>{{cite web |title=Open Access Cyclone (programming language) Journals · OA.mg |url=https://oa.mg/journals/open-access-cyclone-programming-language-journals |website=oa.mg |access-date=30 October 2022 |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030192542/https://oa.mg/journals/open-access-cyclone-programming-language-journals |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The '''Cyclone''' [[programming language]] was intended to be a safe dialect of the [[C (programming language)|C language]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jim |first1=Trevor |last2=Morrisett |first2=J. Greg |last3=Grossman |first3=Dan |last4=Hicks |first4=Michael W. |last5=Cheney |first5=James |last6=Wang |first6=Yanling |date=2002-06-10 |title=Cyclone: A Safe Dialect of C |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/647057.713871 |journal=Proceedings of the General Track of the Annual Conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference |series=ATEC '02 |location=USA |publisher=USENIX Association |pages=275–288 |isbn=978-1-880446-00-3}}</ref> It avoids [[buffer overflow]]s 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 computing|64-bit platforms]]. The [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]] language is mentioned by the original developers for having integrated many of the same ideas Cyclone had.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cyclone |url=http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/ |website=cyclone.thelanguage.org |access-date=11 December 2023 |archive-date=21 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521202022/http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cyclone |url=http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/cyclone/ |website=[[Cornell University]] |access-date=30 October 2022 |archive-date=15 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015034248/https://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/cyclone/ |url-status=live }}</ref>