> And C++ just... doesn't have that many real problems.
It does not have many, but it has one and it's big. It's not memory safe.
Check out this talk by Herb Sutter, around minute 43:
This is the first time a government [see note] has actually issued guidance to industry broadly that was the barest paraphrase away from "where possible don't use C and C++"
[ Note: in this context, the "government" is the US Department of Commerce and NIST, which, according to Herb, have issued a detailed guidance in response to the Executive Order on Cybersecurity [2]. While I couldn't find that guidance, I found one by the NSA [3], which saw quite a few comments here on HN in December last year [4] ].
It does not have many, but it has one and it's big. It's not memory safe.
Check out this talk by Herb Sutter, around minute 43:
[ Note: in this context, the "government" is the US Department of Commerce and NIST, which, according to Herb, have issued a detailed guidance in response to the Executive Order on Cybersecurity [2]. While I couldn't find that guidance, I found one by the NSA [3], which saw quite a few comments here on HN in December last year [4] ].[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeZAKCN4tY
[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
[3] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI...
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33560227