> In fact "threading" in C++ is safer because of the availability of high-quality libraries providing task-based parallelism such as TBB, move semantics is used all the time in C albeit manually with pointer manipulation. It is true that not all of the features play well together, but it's nothing compared to the C pitfalls that I mentioned.
Well, if I use libraries to avoid C's pitfalls, that language will be safe, too.
> If you want to avoid dangerous interactions, don't overengineer your code, stick to the features you understand. This is true not only for C++, but for any language.
That's almost useless advice. You might as well say the key to using C++ is to use Python or C instead.
"Stick to the features you understand," doesn't even really work when coding by yourself. C++ is so incredibly complicated there's a very good chance most people wouldn't even really understand the limited subset they've stuck to. C++ devs with years of experience routinely mess up stuff like exactly when copy and move constructors are called.
For example, how many copy constructors get called in this code:
const std::string myString{"omg"};
std::cout
Most people will have to think about it for a little bit, and a lot of them will answer wrong.
And that advice completely goes out the window when working with code written by other people. And it also means not using any C++ libraries because a lot of them use the full features of C++ and expect (or require) the code calling them use those features, too.
The key to using C++ is to be aware there are many pitfalls, know when you're working with features that are particularly dangerous, have some resources that can help identify and avoid them (like the Effective C++ books), and whenever possible have other people review your code.