Creator of LLVM, Clang, and Swift Says To Not Write Security Critical Code In C/C++

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On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 13:10:02 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> I mean this:
>
> On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 07:11:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> Here's the deal: there is no such thing as a general purpose 
>> (system) language in the empirical sense. We might have been 
>> lead to believe that C or C++ were general purpose, but that 
>> only happend because there were no visible viable 
>> alternatives. C is more and more becoming a kernel/embedded 
>> language, C++ is more and more becoming a legacy/niche 
>> language. C++ is only a game dev language after you add 
>> various extensions (e.g. simd). It is only a number-crunching 
>> language after you add some other extensions.

Yes, that is what I believe is about to happe, as LLVM has 
lowered the threshold for new languages... People slowly 
gravitate towards the most comfortable language for their 
application domain as they establish themselves.