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no_std for instance does not protect the stack completely. That means that, if you for instance have a simple stack-overflow bug in a Rust program when using no_std, even if the pr…

Wrong, for any reasonable definition of memory safety, languages like Java and Javascript are memory safe. Java has escape hatches, but the necessity and prevalence of those escape…

Yes, so something like a modernization profile for C++ would make it easier to enforce, and would not require external tools. But it ultimately does not change that C++ is not C, a…

BTW; Do you know if it is possible to track new comments to Hacker News threads?

That argument can be applied to unsafe Rust as well. There are code reviews, coding standards and other checks for a reason. Though, I suppose something like C++ profiles, just for…

The blog post has a number of issues, including mixing C and C++. And Android C++ source code is often filled with C-style code, especially the older the code, and is not always th…