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Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Charlie Clark Silver badge

Re: Don't be a tease

There was the joke going around that Mozilla invented Rust because they couldn't admit to their C++-foo being too weak

This says a lot about programmers' bias. Like drivers, we all tend to think that we're good programmers and that it's the others that write crap code. But this is simply wrong. For all its many benefits, it's not a secret that writing good, safe C++ code all the time isn't easy and this is partly due to the extremely ambitious design of the language and one of the reasons that Objective C was written. Not that I'm advocating Objective C, just noting that criticism of C++ because of its scope is long-standing.

If you start from the premise that your code isn't always going to be flawless then you should welcome any approach that helps improve it.

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