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The new C++ Core Guidelines & Guidelines Support Library and related tools are interesting efforts to specifically solve those problems.

• Buttons840 10y ago
  If the issue is that "C++ compiles stuff that may or may not work at all" then I don't see how those guidelines will help the situation. A C++ project may or may not follow those guidelines and then we're back where we started.
  • swaroop 10y ago
    My understanding is that the tools are the answer - it's a linter that must be run before landing/merging. See https://youtu.be/hEx5DNLWGgA https://youtu.be/hEx5DNLWGgA for a demo of such tools.
    • bjz_ 10y ago
      Tools are just band-aids over an unsafe type system, and they are all too easy to ignore or never use them in the first place.
      • swaroop 10y ago
        It depends on the community. See gofmt & gometalinter in the golang community.