Fantastic exchange from DConf
John Carter via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 8 17:42:36 PDT 2017
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.
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