On Monday, 8 May 2017 at 20:55:02 UTC, John Carter wrote:
On Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 06:26:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Walter: I believe memory safety will kill C.
C/C++ has been granted an extension of life by the likes of
valgrind and purify and *-sanitizer.
Google makes my point for me....
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/05/oss-fuzz-five-months-later-and.html
Index out of bounds exceptions are great... but the elements of
Walter's talk where bugs are banished at compile time are more
compelling.
Now if we can get to the point where there is no undefined
behaviour in any safe code... that would be a major step
forward.
