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C++ creator rebuts White House warning (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by seth@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Python is memory safe? Can't you access/address memory with C bindings?

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[–] hunger@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That depends on how you decide which bucket something gets thrown into.

The C++ community values things like the RAII and other features that developers can use to prevent classes of bugs. When that is you yard-stick, then C and C++ are not in one bucket.

These papers are about memory safety guarantees and not much else. C and C++ are firmly in the same bucket according to this metric. So they get grouped together in these papers.