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> with heavy cultural idioms and norms, you can keep a lot of the people safely hemmed in, while retaining all the escape hatches. Empirically, no, you cannot.
by pcwalton 7y ago
> with heavy cultural idioms and norms, you can keep a lot of the people safely hemmed in, while retaining all the escape hatches.
Empirically, no, you cannot. Nobody has succeeded at writing memory-safe C++ at scale using normal software development practices.
- barrkel 7y agoYou're overstretching my claim, but I'm not going to press the issue. I want C and C++ replaced just as much as you.