Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

Python is memory safe? Can’t you access/address memory with C bindings?

  • Oliver Lowe@apubtest2.srcbeat.com
    102·
    8 months ago

    $100 says his response boils down to “just don’t write unsafe code”

    Edit: It did. He also said C++ is working to implement optional safety features, but tl;dr:

    Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines

    Pretty sure this is a No true Scotsman moment. (I’ve always wanted to bring this fallacy up but I never knew when lol)