alt Hacker NewsFor those, like me, that didn’t know what Fil-C is:
> Fil-C is a fanatically compatible memory-safe implementation of C and C++. Lots of software compiles and runs with Fil-C with zero or minimal changes. All memory safety errors are caught as Fil-C panics. Fil-C achieves this using a combination of concurrent garbage collection and invisible capabilities (InvisiCaps). Every possibly-unsafe C and C++ operation is checked. Fil-C has no unsafe statement and only limited FFI to unsafe code.
The posted article has a detailed explanation of djb successfully compiling a bunch of C and C++ codebases.
I guess to get on board with this, it is my understanding you have to accept the premise of a Garbage Collector in the runtime?