Fantastic exchange from DConf

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/5/2017 11:26 PM, Joakim wrote:
> Walter: I believe memory safety will kill C.

I can't find any definitive explanation of what the Wannacry exploit is. One 
person told me it was an overflow bug, another that it was truncation from 
converting 32 to 16 bits.

Anyhow, the Wannacry disaster looks to be a very expensive lesson in using 
memory unsafe languages for critical software. I know Microsoft has worked for 
years to use their own C which is memory safer, apparently it is not enough.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/martynl/2005/10/10/annotations-yet-more-help-finding-buffer-overflows/