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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 24 May 2020 at 14:38:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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...
>
>
> T

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.