After two years of being beaten with the memory security stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code.
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The Safe C++ Extensions proposal aims to address the vulnerable programming language's Achilles heel, the challenge of ensuring code is free of memory safety bugs.
"This is a revolutionary proposal that adds memory safety features to the C++ programming language," Vinnie Falco, president and CEO of the C++ Alliance, said Thursday. "This collaboration marks a significant milestone in the C++ ecosystem, as the need for secure code has never been more pressing."
It's never been more pressing as, over the past two years, private and public organizations have pushed programmers to write new applications and rewrite old ones in memory-safe languages like C#, Go, Java, Python, and Swift, but especially Rust because it's an efficient systems language at a low level.
