Alex Gaynor personal blog
Modern C++ Won't Save Us
I’m a frequent critic of memory unsafe languages, principally C and C++, and how they induce an exceptional number of security vulnerabilities. My conclusion, based on reviewing evidence from numerous large software projects using C and C++, is that we need to be migrating our industry to memory safe by default…
- Points
- 326
- HN comments
- 643
- Submissions
- 2
- Cited by
- 9 commenters
Software EngineeringSecurity & Privacy2019
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2019 | Modern C++ Won't Save Us by neptvn | 326 | 388 |
| Apr 25, 2021 | Modern C++ Won't Save Us (2019) by wglb | 189 | 255 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 11 Hacker News comments by 9 different people, from Jul 2019 to Nov 2025.
Most recent:
- canyp · Nov 29, 2025
- wild_pointer · Nov 29, 2025
- boulos · Nov 29, 2025
- helloooooooo · May 5, 2024
- MaxBarraclough · Dec 3, 2022
- MaxBarraclough · May 2, 2022
