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?

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    196·
    8 months ago

    C++ is leagues above C in this regard.

    It’s really not. It has the same flaws, some libraries that promise to avoid them (as long as you don’t hold them wrong - what every single programmer does), and lots and lots of new flaws that may come from anywhere.

    • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
      52·
      8 months ago

      I use C, C++ and Rust in my dayjob.

      I don’t like C++, but I disagree with your statement.

      C++ has:

      • a string type, which sidesteps error prone buffer juggling.
      • smart pointers for scope based deallocation.
      • generic data types. No more hand rolling list and mapping types with void *.

      It’s obviously still not a fully memory safe language, but it has some perks over C. I’d still much rather be using rust (most of the time).