A simplified model of Fil-C | Hacker News

Hacker News debated Fil-C, a C implementation that adds runtime memory safety.

Commenters split on whether crash-on-violation behavior should count as real memory safety.

The thread also weighed Fil-C’s slower performance against Rust’s compile-time guarantees.

A major concern was interoperability, since normal libc and non-Fil-C code are harder to mix.