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by pizlonator 24 days ago
Won’t work

Can’t link Fil-C code to regular C code

And rust uses regular C ABI

You could make it work, if you teach Rust and Fil-C about each other. Nobody has done that (to my knowledge)
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cypherpunk666 23 days ago
I keep day-dreaming about how to leverage the ideas in Fil-C. (a) use it for both Python interpreter and all C libs i want to call from there. (b) use the ideas for extra security in the OS kernel.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yVlKs_GPspxTq95MXLPgj5QuggT...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14HG52S0TrrBbqwzisTupebCD1Im...

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rao-v 23 days ago
This would be a fun and popular project for the right sort of person
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vlovich123 23 days ago
Do you think it’s possible to have fil-c ideas applied to protect unsafe blocks in Rust?
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pizlonator 22 days ago
You’d have to teach rust about Fil-C pointers and their special rules. You’d also have to teach the rust compiler to play nice with the Fil-C GC.

It would be a big change. Probably not backwards compatible with today’s rust.

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