On Friday, 24 February 2017 at 06:59:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
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This isn't evidence that memory safety is "the future", though.
This is evidence that people do not follow basic engineering
practices (for whatever seemingly valid reasons - such as a
project deadline - at the time).
Writing a program (with manual memory management) that does not
have dangerous memory issues is not an intrinsically hard task.
It does, however, require you to *design* your program, not
*grow* it (which, btw, is what a software *engineer* should do
anyway).
Systems such as memory ownership+borrowing, garbage collection,
(automatic) reference counting can mitigate the symptoms (and I
happily use any or all of them when they are the best tool for
the task at hand), but none of them will solve the real issue:
The person in front of the screen (which includes you and me).
