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This is really hard to do in general
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Indeed, is only the OS mastermind had billions and years to fix the foundation...

While looking at resources invested is necessarily a great measure of difficulty, it is somewhat indicative, yes.

you mean "isn't"? Though there is no indication that a lot was invested, so doesn't give you the measure (my comment was about the availability of resources, not of their actual use)

I did yes, sorry

It's done on the majority of the OpenBSD base system, as well as important ports like Chrome and Firefox. Linux also has the parts to do this, though it's more fragile and complicated.

To be clear I have a much higher standard for what is acceptable than that, you really need to consider software that a hundred million people are going to use



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