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eBPF does this, but its power is very limited and it has significant issues with isolation in a multi-tenant environment (like in a true multi-user OS). Beyond this one experiment, proof-carrying code is never going to happen on a larger scale: holier-than-thou kernel developers are deathly allergic to anything threatening their hardcore-C-hacker-supremacy and application developers are now using Go, a language so stupid and backwards it's analog to sprinting full speed in the opposite direction of safety and correctness.


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