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Preach it brother! :)

Hmm, I take it that the situation is that there are a number of vendors/providers/distros/repos who could be distributing your memory-safe builds, but are currently still distributing unsafe builds?

I wonder if an organization like the Tor project [1] would be more motivated to "officially" distribute a Fil-C build, being that security is the whole point of their product. (I'm talking just their "onion router" [2], not (necessarily) the whole browser.)

I could imagine that once some organizations start officially shipping Fil-C builds, adoption might accelerate.

Also, have you talked to the Ladybird browser people? They seemed to be taking an interested in Fil-C.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/

[2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor



Tor wants to move to Rust, and they aren't happy with their C codebase. They want to expand use of multi-threading, and C has been too fragile for that.

https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti/


Makes sense. But maybe the fact that that post is 4 years old serves to bolster the argument for Fil-C's value proposition. However much people may want to move away from their C code bases, the resources it takes to do so in a timely manner are often not so readily available.




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