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  • refalo@programming.dev
    1515·
    5 months ago

    Hard disagree. Safe C++ code can be written quite easily these days. And better tools are coming out all the time.

    • twei@discuss.tchncs.de
      163·
      5 months ago

      Yes, but there’s a difference between “you can write safe code” and “the compiler will come for your family the next time you make a mistake”

      • refalo@programming.dev
        95·
        5 months ago

        rust isn’t a magic bullet either, it still doesn’t protect against a whole host of problems, like stack overflows, out of memory/bitflips, logic errors, memory leaks, unrecoverable errors/panics etc., and many projects are full of unsafe context rust code anyways.

          • Kajika
            2·
            5 months ago

            And C++, just checked the wiki and the 2 example of openssh’s heartbleed and sudo, both in C. Not C++. As expected.

            • twei@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              5 months ago

              By that logic scratch would be the safest language out there (or can you tell me the last time a program written/built in scratch had a bug that affected millions of ppl around the world)