Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems

Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by cogman10 on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:03AM (#23291981)

What do you mean by language constructs? As in, a `synchronized` keyword? Or are you thinking along the lines of `async` `await`?

If you mean the `synchronized` keyword, then correct, they don't have that. Most languages do not have that concept. C++ does have mutexes and has had them since C++11 (nearly a decade). C++ also has as part of the language spec the concept of threads, again, there since C++11.

If you meant co-routines, then C++ just added them with C++20.

Or do you mean something different like green threads (ala go)?

C++ certainly has concurrency constructs and has been expanding them since C++11.

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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by fetbaffe on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:22AM (#23292124)

Like Gos goroutines or Erlangs processes. And more of message passing. C++ has added many of these things later on in the standard library, bolted on afterwards.

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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by erichocean on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:40PM (#23293583)

If you think that using libraries to do things in C++ means they are "bolted on", then you don't understand C++.

The entire design of C++ is to enable efficient libraries for these kinds of things to be built. And it does, and has, and will continue to for decades more.

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