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C++ creator rebuts White House warning (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

$100 says his response boils down to "just don't write unsafe code"

Edit: It did. He also said C++ is working to implement optional safety features, but tl;dr:

Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines

Pretty sure this is a No true Scotsman moment. (I've always wanted to bring this fallacy up but I never knew when lol)