C++ founder Bjarne Stroustrup says profiles are essential to the language’s future and will not break existing code, unlike ad-hoc solutions. C++ memory safety issues have come under heat ...

Memory allocation issues are only a subset of the problems common to C/C++ that cause potential bugs and vulnerabilities, but they are a large subset and are very annoying to track down and fix.

In a 1997 comparison by David A. Wheeler of Ada 95, C89, C++, and Java, these languages’ adherence to the Steelman requirements is determined, with Ada obviously scoring the highest (93%), while ...

Feb 29, 2024 11:03:00 White House recommends developers move from C++ and C to memory-safe programming languages such as Rust and Java. The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) at the ...