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Bjarne Stroustrup's Plan for Bringing Safety to C++ (thenewstack.io)
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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I don't think it's possible to make C++ safe without strictly limiting the user program to a subset of the language. There are guidelines for that (https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines) but even when I try to code in that style, I get to debug crashes the usual way. C++ makes some optimizations possible through e.g. move semantics that are absent from Rust and Ada but I wonder if it really matters these days. Rust seems to be displacing C++ for lots of new projects going forward.