CHERI Myths: I don’t need CHERI if I have safe languages.
There’s a recurring myth that CHERI and safe languages are solving the same problems and that, if you have one, you don’t need the other. When I joined the CHERI project in 2012, my primary motivation was producing hardware that enabled safe interoperability between languages, so I never felt that safe languages and CHERI were in tension. Quite the reverse: My work on CHERI was motivated by a desire to enable safe language adoption and the combination of CHERI and safe languages is far more powerful than either in isolation.
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