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We’re still in for another 20 years of hardcore veteran Cxx programmers insisting that either the memory safety issue is overblown or just a theoretical issue i

• bluGill 3y ago
  The C++ committee is looking hard at how to make C++ memory safe. If you use modern C++ you are already reasonably memory safe - the trick is how do we force developers to not access raw memory (no new/malloc, use vector not arrays...). There are some things that seem like they will come soon. Of course if you really need that non-memory safe stuff - which all your existing code does - then you can't take advantage of it. However you can migrate your C++ to modern C++ and add those features to your code. This is probably easier than migrating to something like Rust (Rust cannot work with C++ unless you stick with the C subset from what I can tell) since you can work in small chunks at a time in at least some situations.