Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

Python is memory safe? Can’t you access/address memory with C bindings?

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    He can get mad all he likes but there’s a reason the Linux kernel’s experiment with rust is going much smoother than C++ (which only lasted a literal week btw)

    • BaardFigur@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      C++ programmer here, and I agree. They’re way too reluctant to break old code with new standards. Backwards compatibility is in many ways killing the language