Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 28, 2025 18:34 UTC (Tue) by rweikusat2 (subscriber, #117920)
In reply to: Fil-C for programmers by tialaramex
Parent article: Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

If this is just another C implementation, it's distribution packagers who would need to adopt it and possibly other people who routinely compile but not necessarily write code.

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Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 29, 2025 1:35 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (3 responses)

Fair point. Reducing friction to adoption could work if the performance impact is universally close enough.

Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 29, 2025 11:45 UTC (Wed) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link] (1 responses)

Adding a runtime to Debian, say like how kFreeBSD was added, would be an interesting avenue for running some things inside a memory-safe environment while finding and fixing memory-type UB for packages people want to run in Val-C.

K3n.

Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 30, 2025 22:23 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

Via the discussion of this lwn.net piece at lobste.rs [1], it turns out [2] that djb had already got in with this.

1: https://lobste.rs/s/mg0aur/fil_c_memory_safe_c_implementa...
2: https://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.html

K3n.

Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 29, 2025 12:18 UTC (Wed) by Baughn (subscriber, #124425) [Link]

It also might eliminate the reasoning some programmers use, that they “have to stick to C because it’s the fastest option”.

Well, now it’s not the fastest option. And no, you don’t get to tell me not to compile everything with FilC. We just need to make that the standard.