alt Hacker NewsDepends in which sense you want it to "catch" the bugs. As this readme notes/quotes,
> All memory safety errors are caught as Fil-C panics.
If your problem is a memory-based bug causing a crash, I think this would just... catch the memory-based bug and crash. Like, it'd crash more reliably. On the other hand, if you want to find and debug the problem, that might be a good thing.
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jacquesm • today at 10:59 AM
Half a second's worth is a lifetime of debugging at today's clock rates so the closer to the fault the crash happens the sooner you can fix it.
wat10000 • today at 2:27 AM
That’s what “catch” means here. As in, catch it in the act. Tools that make bugs crash more reliably and closer to the source of the problem are extremely valuable.
Sure, if the memory error is an immediately crashing one like a null per deref, but if is (for example) a memory corruption (e.g. an out of bounds write or a write-after-free) then this would be super helpful in exposing where those are happening at the source.