- cross-posted to:
- ada
- cross-posted to:
- ada
cross-port from: https://programming.dev/post/5377847
Ironclad is a formally verified, hard real-time capable kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses, written in SPARK and Ada. It is comprised of 100% free software, free in the sense that it respects the user’s freedom.
Some of the supported features are:
- A familiar POSIX-compatible interface.
- True simultaneous preemptive multitasking.
- Advanced cryptography and a security-centered architecture.
- Mandatory Access Control (MAC).
- Highly configurable, hard real-time scheduling.
- Support for several architectures and boards.
Today (4 Nov 2023) at 14:00 UTC the author will preset it on Ada Monthly Meetup!
Fair enough. There are pretty pedantic processes to qualify automotive software, but these are obviously not perfect and bad quality software may still be deployed to the cars.
However, I would not throw OEMs like Tesla and others into the same category regarding Software quality.
I feel like Tesla especially is one that’s subject to this criticism.
I think they also live after the mantra “move fast and break things”, in cars that literally means breaking bones.
The idea that Tesla has that mindset in production and not just the design process is really funny to me