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Re:Securing tomorrow's software: the need for memory safety ... by lmm on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:58PM (#43191494)
> Fil-C is the first to get both compatibility and safety right.

Has any impartial third party reached that conclusion? Because honestly the way I remember it everyone says this kind of thing when it's their own project, a lot of the people behind these previous efforts were just as confident as you are.

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Re:Securing tomorrow's software: the need for memory safety ... by pizlonator on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:26AM (#43191615)
Not in any official capacity but it’s been looked at by other C compiler experts, other programming language experts, GC experts, and security experts. Folks who have looked at it deeply agree with those claims. And I hope they would have told me if they didn’t believe anything about my claims!
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