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Re:The NSA advises move to memory-safe languages by zaphar on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:46AM (#38612791)
If you have no users then go for it. However if you do then you are doing those users a disservice by exposing them to unnecessary risk.

Maybe the risk is mitigated in other ways. Your software runs as a cli and not a service. It doesn't process outside input. It is run in an ironclad sandbox.

But honestly, if you think the way C++ with RAII want's you to then you should already be following the rules that Rust want's you to follow for the most part.

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Re:The NSA advises move to memory-safe languages by binary132 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:49AM (#38612840)
so what you’re saying is proper C++ is fine?
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Re:The NSA advises move to memory-safe languages by zaphar on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:54AM (#38612908)
What I'm saying is that if you are sufficiently smart then you could concievably write perfectly safe C++. But since almost no one in practice has ever been able to be sufficiently smart consistently enough to ship C or C++ code that doesn't have memory safety issues, I don't trust anyone to do so and would rather people stop writing stuff in them when there are better languages to use where I don't have to trust you as much.
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Re:The NSA advises move to memory-safe languages by binary132 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:24PM (#38678916)
Here’s what Stroustrup says:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2022/p26...

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