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I wish that rather than making excuses, C++ apologists switched to trying to just make the whole language memory safe. It’s possible. There just aren’t good in
by pizlonator 3y ago
I wish that rather than making excuses, C++ apologists switched to trying to just make the whole language memory safe.
It’s possible. There just aren’t good incentives in place to do it.
- sseagull 3y agoI've long held that belief. But doing so is very technical and political, and not fun. Turns out what is more fun is to create a new language and rewrite the whole ecosystem. So a lot of the energy is going there instead. Programming is part fashion...
- pizlonator 3y agoYeah. Building a new language from scratch is definitely easier than retrofitting new properties into the semantics of an existing one. Hasn’t stopped me from trying though. :-) And the CHERI folks are trying, too. So it’s really more of a political problem than a technical one. The excuse extravaganza that we’re seeing from Stroustrup and Sutter doesn’t help at all.