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Can C Be Saved? Bjarne Stroustrup on Ensuring Memory Safety

There’s turmoil in the https://thenewstack.io/c-23-standard-wont-have-a-key-parallelism-feature/. While many languages now support “basic type safety” — that is, ensuring that variables access only sections of memory that are clearly defined by their data types — C++ has struggled to offer similar guarantees. This new statement, co-authored by C++ creator https://www.stroustrup.com/, now appears to call for changing the C++ programming language itself to address safety concerns.

(Later Stroustrup writes that the solution is “a carefully crafted set of programming rules supported by library facilities and enforced by static analysis.”)

There’s a few hundred billion lines of C++ out there, and we can’t break them.”