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hanstospacetoday at 1:16 PM1 replyview on HN

I checked Fil-C out and it looks great. How is this different from Fil-C? Apart from the obvious LLVM stuff


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woodruffwtoday at 1:33 PM

Fil-C essentially lifts C onto a managed, garbage-collected runtime. This is a small header that adds some C++ features to C.

(These features are still essentially unsafe: the unique pointer implementation still permits UAF, for example, because nothing prevents another thread from holding the pointer and failing to observe that it has been freed.)