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Secure by Design: Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety (security.googleblog.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We see no realistic path for an evolution of C++ into a language with rigorous memory safety guarantees that include temporal safety.

A large-scale rewrite of all existing C++ code into a different, memory-safe language appears very difficult and will likely remain impractical.

Tough spot to be in, but I'm glad there are more and more people calling out for a transition away from C/C++. One can only hope that Rust doesn't become the new C++ aka the garbage dump of programming languages. Every large player wanted to write C++ in their own way, so they added it to the language and now we have this... thing.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the long run, I wonder if rust will spawn a family of new memory-safe languages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am also very interested in seeing what the next generation of Rust-inspired languages will look like, and not because I am dissatisfied with Rust today. Rust has significantly raised the bar of how a good programming needs to work and any new language in the systems programming area (and beyond) will inevitably be compared to it.

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