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Fil-C as a Nix C/C++ toolchain and cross platform

4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2025-10-28 · latest 2025-12-14

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  1. If you're into Nix, check out https://github.com/mbrock/filnix — not yet integrated & maintained in upstream Nixpkgs, but lets you replace Nix/NixOS packages with Fil-C versions quite easily.
    comment by mbrock · 2025-12-14 · in Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
  2. Check out this document to see how the Fil-C ports of Python and Perl and so on work: https://github.com/mbrock/filnix/blob/main/ports/analysis.md This is still within the userspace application realm but it's good to know that Fil-C does…
    comment by mbrock · 2025-10-28 · in Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
  3. …as well as integrating Fil-C as a toolchain in Nix so you can build any Nix package with Fil-C. https://github.com/mbrock/filnix It's working. It builds tmux, nethack, coreutils, Perl, Tcl, Lua, SQLite, and a bunch of other stuff. Binary…
    comment by mbrock · 2025-10-28 · in Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation