Google's take on memory safety

[M. M.]

On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 17:16:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 09:19:20AM +0000, RazvanN via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
> [...]
>
> Called it. Since years ago. It's been clear then, and becoming 
> even clearer now by the day, in today's landscape of bots that 
> constantly scan the net for systems with memory 
> vulnerabilities, that the days of memory-unsafe languages like 
> C or C++ are numbered.  Software systems have developed to the 
> point that manually managing memory just doesn't cut it 
> anymore.  Systems have become too large, too complex, and 
> memory issues have become intractibly difficult to handle 
> manually.  It's time to let go of the illusion of total control 
> over one's memory usage and make use of real solutions.  Like 
> the GC. ;-)  Or any of the various automated memory management 
> schemes.
>
> [...]

I wonder what Linus is thinking about all this bashing of C...