Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.
not exactly. i can’t remember the last time i
new’d ordeleted anything at work. not only do we have smart pointers for over a decade now, but also, most of the time, you don’t even want to be allocating stuff on the heap anyway, so raii will take care of managing your resources. memory management in c++ is explicit, but it’s mostly automaticyeah it’s not as safe as rust, but idiomatic c++ isn’t supposed to be littered with
newanddeletestatements. that’s indication of java-like c++ code, which has been the true villain in c++ codebases for decades, imo. most shitty c++ code is java-like c++ code written by people who would rather be coding in java (or java++ aka c#)Exactly… I’ve never gotten the whole “C++ is so unsafe” thing. If you’re having trouble with manual memory management in modern C++, it’s likely because you’re doing something wrong.
There are use-cases for it, but if you’re working with something so performance critical that you can’t afford an
std::arrayorunique_ptr, you’re probably better off just writing straight C instead (except then you don’t even have references).Modern C++ has a shitload of guardrails if you care to use them, but also lets you say “fuck it, this
void*points to a double, trust me” if you want to.