Another article on the White House's warning about C++, this time with Herb Sutter offering his opinion and proposing some solutions.
Don't miss the original White House article and the opinion of Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++.
C++ safety, in context
We must make our software infrastructure more secure against the rise in cyberattacks (such as on power grids, hospitals, and banks), and safer against accidental failures with the increased use of software in life-critical systems (such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons).The past two years in particular have seen extra attention on programming language safety as a way to help build more-secure and -safe software; on the real benefits of memory-safe languages (MSLs); and that C and C++ language safety needs to improve — I agree.... read more