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jedisct1today at 1:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

Have you heard about fil-c?


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Tuna-Fishtoday at 1:59 PM

It's an interesting option for infrastructure that's not performance critical.

I agree with Domen Kožar that I want an extern "fil-c" in Rust. https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/13/i-want-extern-fil-c/

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nu11ptrtoday at 2:31 PM

It is a massive accomplishment and neat tool for sure but:

1) Induces a large performance penalty

2) Introduces a GC into C code bases (higher memory requirements, performance profile changes)

3) Is x86-64 only atm I believe

An idiomatic Rust port would have none of these issues, so it would be more a stop gap measure than a long term strategy.

Almondsetattoday at 1:51 PM

What about it?