WhatsApp BO critical security vulnerability

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 16:41:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> What we need is a language with the right incentives: bounds 
> checking is default and it takes effort to turn it off (should 
> that ever become necessary), and the standard library should 
> always have an API that take bounds.

We have that language, it is called D.

The only problem is so many people say "use -release 
-boundscheck=off" to get an extra percentage point on artificial 
benchmarks without educating people as to what that REALLY means.