Memory Unsafety Is an Attitude Problem

btmc.substack.com

Since I know a lot of people don't bother reading the actual articles posted and just focus on the title (I'm guilty of this myself), I'd like to point out the article is not arguing against the importance of memory safe languages like Rust.

Quite the opposite, I'm saying if enough people actually cared C and C++ would have had memory safe subsets ages ago.

Just to put this in perspective, Dennis Ritchie proposed fat pointers to WG 14.

Bjarne Stroustoup has discussed several approaches to safety in The Design and Evolution of C++, and famously published the Remember the Vasa paper regarding where everything is going.

The fact that not even the original authors of the languages were/are able to win the majority of votes at ISO shows where the community culture lies.

Damn that's an even stronger argument than my article...

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