> Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines, and peoples’ notions of which aspects of safety are important differ. The fundament

> Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines, and peoples’ notions of which aspects of safety are important differ. The fundamental problem is they’re just guidelines and they’ll always be just guidelines. You can still do all the wild old stuff without so much as a warning and you’ll have to figure out how it even interacts with the new stuff which exposes yet another vector for failure.