> Unfortunately, in the 25 years I've known C++, I feel like I've been promised this and that and the other thing was making C++ safe, correct, reliable, etc. A

> Unfortunately, in the 25 years I've known C++, I feel like I've been promised this and that and the other thing was making C++ safe, correct, reliable, etc. And yet this goal seems elusive. How hard have you tried? The tooling is terrible to set up, and build system integration is extremely lacking. But once you have set up clang-tidy and clang-format, it just works, and it catches bugs and ensures a consistent style. And enabling clang's and GCC's static analysis is just a few compiler options away. Same with address sanitizer, leak sanitizer, UB sanitizer and thread sanitizer. None of it gets used automatically, you have to understand the tools and how to integrate them into your build system. But they're not at all elusive.