Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
Posted by waozen@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 3 comments
A memory-safe implementation of C and C++ that aims to let C code run safely, unmodified.
XNormal@reddit
Ahick-Fil-C ?
LugosFergus@reddit
Just posted a week ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1obwnkm/filc_is_a_fanatically_compatible_memorysafe/
Tornado547@reddit
This is very technically impressive but it seems pretty niche to me.
This has roughly the performance and safety characteristics of something in the Ocaml-Golang area, but with C's extremely limited ergonomics, and I don't see why you would want that. I suppose it could be used as an ASAN/UBSan on steroids during the debug phase and then switch to a faster implementation in prod? Other than that the use-case is existing large-scale c/c++ code-bases, where safety is critical and speed isn't. How many of those exist