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A simplified model of Fil-C

63 pointsby aw1621107yesterday at 9:38 PM24 commentsview on HN

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whatsakandryesterday at 10:27 PM

Fil-C is one of the most underrated projects I've ever seen. All this "rewrite it in rust for safety" just sounds stupid when you can compile your C program completely memory safe.

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vzalivayesterday at 11:02 PM

This is yet another variant of the "fat pointers" technique, which has been implemented and rejected many times due to either insufficient security guarantees, inability to cross non-fat ABI boundaries, or the overhead it introduces.