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Re:Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett ... by dthul on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:35AM (#20827210)
I think you missed the point of Rust. It's not about replacing new/delete with RAII (even though that's a good idea for sure). How does modern C++ help you with tracking whether a pointer/reference outlives the lifetime of the pointee? Not at all.
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Re:Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett ... by pjmlp on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:35PM (#20833402)
By using the lifetime static analysis recently introduced in clang tidy and Visual C++ 2019.

It is still in the early stages and work is being done to make it a common feature across major compiler, while improving their capabilities.

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