Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 28, 2025 18:15 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Fil-C for programmers by tialaramex
Parent article: Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

> I am interested in programmers rather than users because I think that influences whether Fil-C is just an interesting project for our moment or it becomes a "successor" to C in a way that Zig, Odin etc. never could.

My expectation is that there isn't going to be a single successor to C. For some group of people, that was C++ a long time back. For others it is going to Rust or Zig or something else. For the final group they are going to keep coding in C forever and it will more of a generational change eventually.