I'm posting this from a memory safe web browser

43 points by pizlonator 5mo ago ↗ HN

Hi everyone! I'm posting this from a memory safe browser: WebKitGTK MiniBrowser compiled with Fil-C, plus all dependencies compiled with Fil-C

Still dealing with a tail of bugs, some of which look like overzealous optimizations leading to loss of pointer capability (leading to a filc panic). But it works well enough that I can say "hi" on here.

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modeless 5mo ago ↗

I'd totally use a memory safe browser even if it made all the C++ code 4x slower. Execution time of C++ code is far from a bottleneck in the perceived speed of a web browser these days. I guess the main downside would be the lack of a JIT for JavaScript. Would it ever be possible to extend Fil-C's safety guarantees to a JIT compiler? I'm not sure how that would work.

ctz 5mo ago ↗

Me too!