alt Hacker NewsThere is an unsafe call primitive in stdfil that was used to support constant time crypto functions when Fil-C didn't have support for inline assembly.
Fil-C now has support for inline assembly, so it's not needed anymore, and I believe indeed the intention is to remove it, since Fil-C is not supposed to have any unsafe hatches.
Fil-C is not Linux only by design, that's completely false.
By the way, if you don't want a culture war, you gotta stop warring.
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> Fil-C now has support for inline assembly, so it's not needed anymore, and I believe indeed the intention is to remove it, since Fil-C is not supposed to have any unsafe hatches.
See, this is nuance! Nuance is good! But you can't go around saying "fil-c has no escape hatches" when it has one, even if that one is planned on being removed.
> Fil-C is not Linux only by design, that's completely false.
Can you explain to me how it would work on other platforms? It currently does not, and I don't see how it can. Or at least, not without more "escape hatches."
Can I install Fil-C on Windows without WSL or Cygwin?
> By the way, if you don't want a culture war, you gotta stop warring.
I find it hard to understand how could steveklabnik's comment be seen as warring.