Ask HN: Would any code analysis tools have caught have caught heartbleed?

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If not, why not? Is this kind of issue something that a language feature could avoid?

This blog post demonstrates how OpenSSL's unsafe C code can be migrated to a safe programming language called ATS (Applied Type System):

See http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1125 (Heartbleed and Static Analysis)

Looks like the FLOSS community needs to start exploring these kind of tools.