Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.
Just use Rust. Eazy Peazy. C++ will likely be still be used because it’s just not realistic for some softwares to switch to a safer programming language.
Until chip manufacturers officially support rust, my clients will not want me to use an unofficial crate no matter how good it is.
I will use Rust when const generics are actually useful and we get some viable alternative to variadic templates.
I feel like it’s just a matter of time.
Since someone managed to make an event based library in Rust, I don’t think we need to stop at it.
As long as some of the problems with the borrow checker with large code-bases can be fixed, it should be usable for pretty much every application.
On the other hand, all we have done is changed the terms of “don’t make it crash” to a simpler, “don’t use
unsafe”. That, I feel, would eventually bring up similar problems in different ways from what we have now.On the other, other hand, until my concentration becomes so bad that I am not able to handle my memory allocations, I will not stop using C++