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Re:Safe C++ proposal is not being continued by DannyBee on Sunday September 14, 2025 @08:12AM (#45239240)
“But those people aren't going to join language committees.”

This is amusingly wrong in the worst way. In the case of c++, they were there but they left years ago when it became clear the committee didn’t see this problem as existential

Re:Safe C++ proposal is not being continued by pjmlp on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:07AM (#45248698)
And in the old days, as I keep telling, many of us (users) prefered C++ over C, exactly due to the safety and stronger typing.
Re:Safe C++ proposal is not being continued by DannyBee on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:33PM (#45256654)
Yep. You either die young or live long enough to become the villain