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The way I see it, as far as memory safety is concerned that's just framing. Both Fil-C and Rust have a boundary below which the unsafe lives. If Fil-C is only safer than rust when you don't pass the `-F unsafe_code` argument to rustc then IMO "safer" in this case is somewhat of an empty claim.

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I think you should watch the linked presentation, it will show how it is "safer" than rust. Unfortunately there are performance implications, but fil-c seems fast enough to go into production for many workloads and surprisingly needs very little code changes to existing C/C++ projects which is a huge benefit.

I think Fil-C might make a lot of sense for running legacy C or C++ codebases. But for new code, it seems like it’s trying to compete with other GC languages. Take away C’s performance advantages and I don’t know why anyone would use it.

Fil-C: Combining the ergonomics of C with the performance of Python!

Fil-C is much faster than Python

And it’s fun to write new code in.

I like using C. It is simple, elegant, has very fast compilation times, requires no FFI needed for many libraries, is extremely stable and extremely portable, a large ecosystem, and, most importantly, I do not think the ergonomics of C are bad.

It is inconvenient to start using it as it comes with basically nothing out of the box, but this is irrelevant after a short time using it.

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