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A simplified model of Fil-C

145 pointsby aw1621107yesterday at 9:38 PM71 commentsview on HN

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hsaliaktoday at 1:07 AM

I made https://github.com/hsaliak/filc-bazel-template bazel target for people who may want to use these two together to make hermetic builds with it.

whatsakandryesterday at 10:27 PM

Fil-C is one of the most underrated projects I've ever seen. All this "rewrite it in rust for safety" just sounds stupid when you can compile your C program completely memory safe.

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vzalivayesterday at 11:02 PM

This is yet another variant of the "fat pointers" technique, which has been implemented and rejected many times due to either insufficient security guarantees, inability to cross non-fat ABI boundaries, or the overhead it introduces.