Re:Will Carbon Replace C++?
by kazinator on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:52PM
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Regardless of all that, you can make your own vector class which works exactly how you want and is completely safe.
In a greenfield project where you control every line of C++ code, you can easily achieve very good safety using nothing but ancient C++ features.
Not just memory safety. I mean, you can make your own numeric types that do overflow checks and throw exceptions or whatever. It probably won't be very fast, but it will be solid.
People have used C++ (ancient C++) to make numeric types with units, where you can't add "kilograms per second" to "meters". I remember that from some talk thing I went to in 1999.
In a greenfield project where you control every line of C++ code, you can easily achieve very good safety using nothing but ancient C++ features.
Not just memory safety. I mean, you can make your own numeric types that do overflow checks and throw exceptions or whatever. It probably won't be very fast, but it will be solid.
People have used C++ (ancient C++) to make numeric types with units, where you can't add "kilograms per second" to "meters". I remember that from some talk thing I went to in 1999.