[OffTopic]: Safer usage of C++ in Chrome

[Elronnd]

On Thursday, 9 September 2021 at 07:28:00 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Nothing new to those of us that are aware of the issues that 
> plague C and C++ codebases in terms of security, still kind of 
> interesting to see how much effort is being thrown at trying to 
> fix Chrome's security exploits.

99% of security bugs in browsers are due to JIT.  That's not 
something a language like d would help with.  There was some work 
done on formally verified JIT, but it's wildly complex and 
difficult to work with.  GC is similar—you want a GC which is 
attuned to JS's semantics, not just to piggyback off of D's GC, 
because D gc is not precise nor concurrent.