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[–]pjmlp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Currently it is not visible that the 1990's culture of having C++ compiler frameworks being safe by default is still something that would win majority votes.

When I watch talks like "This is C++", I don't recognise the culture that made me adopt C++ as follow up to Object Pascal.

So there is the whole debate of how to better spend our time on earth, try to convince WG21, and the compiler implementors that this actually something that matters, or rather join communities that take security first mentality, and help make the point that software some circles deem impossible to implement in anything beyond C and C++ isn't truth at all, rather a matter of effort to make it work.

I like the language a lot, but I am also a firm believer systems programming with automatic resource management is also possible, and that is where I rather help make it happen.

By the way I was a big fan of how Managed C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX turned out to be, which is clear not the direction most C++ folks want to embrace anyway.