All this recent safety talk is so strange to me, also a decade-long cpp dev. I read all this drama and worries, but that never relates to worries I experienced with the language. I've only ever seen safety issues with absurdly bad and old code that would never go past static analysis anyways, let alone a code review.

Real issues for my peers and myself are things like the thirst for reflections, the thirst for throwing out old garbage. Certain gripes with language details like initialization, the way a few things have been implemented etc.

I genuinely feel puzzled by the topics of all these cpp posts. Is everyone coding ultra low level with tooling from 1999?