You should watch the cppcon2015 keynotes https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Writing-Good-C-14 https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Wr

You should watch the cppcon2015 keynotes https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Writing-Good-C-14 https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Writing-Goo... static checking of the core guidelines is the entire reason they are writing them. This isn't just a nice literary exercise The static checker is found here (obviously still under development) https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL