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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 06:33:31PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d 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/
> 
> Garbage collection and array bounds checks fixes the majority of those
> with no special effort, so I am sure the numbers are different for
> most D programs.

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...


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