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C++ creator rebuts White House warning (www.infoworld.com)
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[–] technom@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

One of their sources is the NSA, which is both mandated to make such recommendations and has the competence to do so. And as for the safety of C++, it's possible to write unsafe code in modern C++. One of the best examples is multithreaded code. Modern C++ is far safer than C or pre-C++11, but it doesn't address the entire space of memory safety.