> And C++ just... doesn't have that many real problems.
70% of security bugs are memory safety issues.
That's a lot of real problems.
> It has a lot of irks, but the problems people run into are problems that others already solved, a thousand times, over the last half century, in many different ways for many different iterations of the language.
People run into memory safety issues more often in new C++ code.
70% of security bugs are memory safety issues. That's a lot of real problems.
> It has a lot of irks, but the problems people run into are problems that others already solved, a thousand times, over the last half century, in many different ways for many different iterations of the language.
People run into memory safety issues more often in new C++ code.
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https://security.googleblog.com/2021/09/an-update-on-memory-...
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https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI...
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https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafet...
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