<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 25, 2016, at 8:54 PM, Robert Nikander via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">has there been any discussion about doing something in Swift like Java’s “verified” code, where you can load a 3rd party plugin and trust that it’s not going to segfault or call some C-library?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Any Swift code can abort the process by failing an assertion, or by calling a library function in a way that will cause it to fail an assertion (e.g. by accessing an out-of-bounds array element.) Swift isn’t designed as a “safe” language.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></body></html>