From Fil Pizlo (<a href="http://www.filpizlo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.filpizlo.com/</a>), major contributor to WebKit's JavaScript engine, among other things:<p>> Fil-C is already powerful enough to run a memory-safe curl and a memory-safe OpenSSH (both client and server) on top of a memory-safe OpenSSL, memory-safe zlib, memory-safe pcre (which required no changes), memory-safe CPython (which required some changes and even found a bug), memory-safe SQLite, memory-safe libcxx and libcxxabi, and memory-safe musl (Fil-C's current libc).
Kudos for effort but some dealbreakers here. Hope it makes more progress.<p><pre><code> Currently about 10x slower than standard C (ranging from 3x to 20x)
Only works on Linux/X86_64</code></pre>