Chrome: 70% of all security related bugs are memory issues

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 05:48:59AM +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 May 2020 at 14:38:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> > > On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 17:34:21 UTC, aberba wrote:
> > > > Yeah,
> > > > https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/
[...]
> > Notable from the article is that both Microsoft and Google are
> > seriously looking into alternative programming languages.  I think
> > we're looking at the beginning of the end of the long reign of C/C++
> > in the programming landscape. Maybe in about 20-30 years' time C/C++
> > will become relics in the dustbin of history...
[...]
> It will still take ages, Google and Microsoft are also heavyweights on
> ISO C++, and collaborating on C++ lifetime analysis and C++ Core
> Guidelines.
> 
> Hence Project Verona and Checked C from Microsoft as well.

Well OK, maybe 20-30 years is a bit optimistic.  But I think this is the
start of a general trend to gradually move away from C/C++ towards safer
and less painful languages to work with. The other big user of C++ I
know of is the game industry, and AFAICT the sentiment there is also
that C++ is merely a necessary evil, but they'd jump ship in a heartbeat
if a viable competitor comes along.


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