Static Analysis
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Software Development
Datalog’s Resurgence Inside Modern Tooling: Where It Really Lives and Where It Only Rhymes
How a restricted logic language became the engine behind static analysis, and why your incremental build system is only a…
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The Halting Problem’s Practical Shadow
Why static analyzers, linters, and even the Java compiler’s own exhaustiveness checking all live under the same hard ceiling. Every…
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The Bytecode Verifier’s Hidden Contract
Every class file passes a formal dataflow analysis before the JIT ever sees it, and that quiet checkpoint is what…
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The Halting Problem’s Quiet Relevance to Static Analysis Tools
Why your linter can never be complete, and why that is not a bug in the tool but a theorem…
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The Halting Problem, Rice’s Theorem,and the Walls They Build
Why no algorithm — and no AI model — can fully decide what programs do, and what that means for…
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Building Lightning-Fast Program Analysis with Soufflé and Datalog
When you’re trying to understand what a program does—tracking how data flows through it, finding security vulnerabilities, or optimizing code—you…
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Can Static Analysis replace Code Reviews?
In my last post, I explained how to do code reviews properly. I recommended taking advantage of static analysis tools…
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Findbugs Warnings By Sample
The FindBugs™ bug descriptions of the online documentation are concise and well written. Unfortunately, some parts of the descriptions are…
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Code Forensics
How do you know if using code metrics really does help to produce code with fewer bugs. I am convinced…
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