Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

Python is memory safe? Can’t you access/address memory with C bindings?

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    $100 says his response boils down to “just don’t write unsafe code”

    Edit: It did. He also said C++ is working to implement optional safety features, but tl;dr:

    Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines

    And the modern guidelines are mostly an unenforced list of things not to do.