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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
 

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] snowe 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That first link is about a document from 2006, while C++ became a lot safer with C++11 in 2011. It's much easier to write safe C++ now, if you follow current guidelines:

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/

[–] tyler -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the standards for safe C++ haven’t changed, no matter how much the language changes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I would say the standard has changed. The current guidelines require you to use features that didn't exist before C++11. C++11 was a huge change and it made C++ a lot nicer. The updates since then have generally been improvements but more incremental than revolutionary.

[–] aport -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dude core guidelines is like 2000 pages, C++ is a meme language

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Print from html to PDF in a browser was 708 pages, so maybe half that if printed like a book (less whitespace etc.). About like a Rust textbook. Still a lot I guess.

[–] aport 2 points 7 months ago

Well I'm old so I need a larger font size

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Seems very reasonable, apart from an arbitrary number of assertions required per function