Typical security issues in C++: why the GC isn't your enemy

[Sergey]

On Monday, 5 December 2022 at 20:28:42 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> On Monday, 5 December 2022 at 19:57:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> but it's keeping track of the *lifetime* of allocated memory.  
>> One could say that this is proof that lifetime is a complex 
>> problem. But again it's a strong argument that the GC brings a 
>> major benefit: it relieves
>
> Thank you for interesting statistics and analysis. 
> Unfortunately it seems that the IT community (biggest companies 
> with largest code bases) stick with borrow-checker lifetime 
> approach to solve those issues and not on GC.

The story with recommendations from NSA about “safe” languages is 
continued..
Answer from Bjarne 
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p2739r0.pdf