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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