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cachius ◴[17 Nov 25 12:56 UTC] No.45953162[source]▶

A recent superpower was added by Fil aka the pizlonator who made C more Fil-C with FUGC, a garbage collector with minimal adjustments to existing code, turning it into a memory safe implementation of the C and C++ programming languages you already know and love.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133938

https://fil-c.org/

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762236 ◴[17 Nov 25 13:30 UTC] No.45953390[source]▶

>>45953162 #

Why would I want to run a garbage collector and deal with it's performance penalties?

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1. cryptonector ◴[18 Nov 25 03:38 UTC] No.45961132[source]▶

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Because C is very unsafe, but there are still many billions of lines of C in use, so making C safer is a great idea.

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Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)