Safe C++ Extensions proposal would provide C++ developers with memory-safe implementations of essential data structures and algorithms, along with features that prevent common memory-related errors.

Making C++ safe. Memory safe languages do exist and include Rust, Go, Java, Swift, and Python. C++ is under particular scrutiny because of the amount of critical code that has been written in it.

Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is ...

I'm a psychologist by training, but most of my work right now involves developing quantitative models in R; however, lately I've needed to start incorporating C++ code into the R functions I write ...

In my initial column on C++ smart pointers, I mentioned how smart pointers overcame the perception that C++ memory management was error-prone. Today I want to talk about the classic ...

The goal of the Safe C++ proposal is extending C++ by defining a superset of the language that can be used to write code with the strong safety guarantees similarly to code written in Rust. The key to ...

TrapC is not the only attempt to deal with memory safety in C or C++. The C++ Partnership worked on its Safe C++ Extensions project to remedy C++memory safety.

This week's post notes that Microsoft's C# and some other languages are memory-safe, in contrast to C and C++ code, whose use is causing a vulnerability problem that is only going to get worse with ...

Software Makers Encouraged to Stop Using C/C++ by 2026 Your email has been sent Memory-unsafe programming languages introduce potential flaws What software manufacturers should do by January 2026 ...