Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m...
by pjmlp on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:24AM
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Because what got C++ adopted in first place was its copy-paste compatibility with C.
C++ was also born at Bell Labs, and due to that, all major C compiler vendors quickly started shipping C++ on their boxes as well.
If you take away copy-paste compatibility you might be better off doing D, C# or whatever safe variant already exists.
Which is what many of us have done, to move to type safe languages, and only use C and C++ at the boundaries, in small pockets of unsafe code.
In fact if you look at mobile OSes, that is the reality for app developers, C and C++ are no longer the full stack languages they were 20 years ago, rather used for the kernel, drivers, compositor and shading languages, but everything else happens in safer languages.
And the SDKs only allow you to write libraries, not full applications.
Naturally are clever developers that subvert the workflow and transform the libraries into the actual application.
C++ was also born at Bell Labs, and due to that, all major C compiler vendors quickly started shipping C++ on their boxes as well.
If you take away copy-paste compatibility you might be better off doing D, C# or whatever safe variant already exists.
Which is what many of us have done, to move to type safe languages, and only use C and C++ at the boundaries, in small pockets of unsafe code.
In fact if you look at mobile OSes, that is the reality for app developers, C and C++ are no longer the full stack languages they were 20 years ago, rather used for the kernel, drivers, compositor and shading languages, but everything else happens in safer languages.
And the SDKs only allow you to write libraries, not full applications.
Naturally are clever developers that subvert the workflow and transform the libraries into the actual application.