My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 09:28:08 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 06:54:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto 
> wrote:
>>
>> C folks like to manage their own memory and they get it wrong 
>> most of the time.
>>
>
> god help us all, if that assertion is true. (which of course, 
> it's not).
>
> 'some of the time', sure, even the best, but 'most of the 
> time'.. that is hyperbole - except perhaps, in the case of 
> novices.
>
> The tools we have available these days, to assist C 
> programmers, is something to factored in when speaking about 
> the C language.
>
> btw. C powers the world.
>
> https://www.toptal.com/c/after-all-these-years-the-world-is-still-powered-by-c-programming

Unfortunely,

"~70% of the vulnerabilities Microsoft assigns a CVE each year 
continue to be memory safety issues"

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-approach-to-more-secure-code/

"As part of our continuous commitment to improve the security of 
the Android ecosystem, we are partnering with Arm to design the 
memory tagging extension (MTE). Memory safety bugs, common in C 
and C++, remain one of the largest vulnerabilities in the Android 
platform and although there have been previous hardening efforts, 
memory safety bugs comprised more than half of the high priority 
security bugs in Android 9."

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/adopting-arm-memory-tagging-extension.html

C only powers the world, because lawsuits due to security 
exploits still aren't a common practice in software like in other 
industries, where liability is legally enforced.

The day this changes, C won't power anything for much longer.