Someone still has to build those libraries full of value types, and build the necessary abstractions on top of low level pointer laden OS APIs. For a game engi

Someone still has to build those libraries full of value types, and build the necessary abstractions on top of low level pointer laden OS APIs. For a game engine programmer, that means dealing with new console hardware with new DMA controller and graphics APIs in concurrent environments where performance is critical. If anything, low-level memory fiddling is becoming more common and more widespread. Vulkan and D3D12 get lower level than ever before in what they expose. Webassembly brings pointers back to webpages like it's the 1990s and we're rocking ActiveX. I fear I'm soon going to have to start running address sanitizer for webpages. People tell me modern C++ solves this problem, but supposed examples of it invariably underwhelm me. I suspect people claiming such just have lower standards. MIRSA C can help. NASA-level piles of documentation and rules and restraint can help. Enough unit tests that you start to catch more compiler bugs than library bugs can help. Drowning the end user in the false positives produced by modern C++ static analysis tools can help. Thorough fuzz testing can help. But these are ancient techniques, not modern. Combine all that and more and, yeah, you can actually get kinda close to practicing safe C++. But this level of care is rarely practiced. No, the real problem I think is very few people are capable of the skill, patience, and fortitude to write strictly correct C++, and they rarely have the time to. And absolutely none of them were born with that power. Fresh blood will learn from their mistakes, and we will pay for those mistakes in sweat, tears, missed milestones, and CVEs. I'd love to be proven wrong. C++ pays my bills and has a great ecosystem in a lot of ways - I'd love if it were salvagable. Meanwhile, the last C++17 upgrade attempt I saw failed when we decided we were unwilling to maintain a fork of the standard library to fix compilation issues in the vendor's implementation for one of our platforms.