The whole memory safety chapter is a human problem first and foremost.
Some humans haven’t written a memory-safety bug in decades, but it requires a discipline the recent hire never acquired.
I always advocated fixing issues at their root. Humans write bugs, fix the humans. Somehow this was always regarded as taboo ever since I started at Microsoft in 2013.
The whole memory safety chapter is a human problem first and foremost.
Some humans haven’t written a memory-safety bug in decades, but it requires a discipline the recent hire never acquired.
I always advocated fixing issues at their root. Humans write bugs, fix the humans. Somehow this was always regarded as taboo ever since I started at Microsoft in 2013.