Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:55:55 -0500
On 2/14/23 12:02, Roberto R via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I guess many of you have read articles about Microsoft, Google and NSA
> saying that it is better to stop to use C++ and use instead memory safe
> languages like Rust or Java.
>
> Is it possible to make C++ a memory safe language? For sure it is
> possible to make it safer, at least for new code that does not use
> legacy code.
>
> It needs a few extensions to the language, and to add libraries that
> privilege safety instead of performance, to be used when their
> performances are still acceptable.
I did brought up this subject a while ago... I already have a solution
that fixes all memory issues implicitly (crashes, leaks, cyclic
references, ...) and in a deterministic way but it is patented and
requires a proprietary source-to-source compiler to inject the code into
existing C++ code:
https://github.com/philippeb8/root_ptr
I am considering open sourcing it given the importance of the problem as
we can see with all the cybersecurity problems it involves.
We also need to fix low-level system allocators using singletons and
virtual tables so that it'll be easier to use custom memory pools.
Rust anyways has a long way to go to reach the level of C++ even if it
plagiarizes the architecture of the headers. Although it can replace C
very quickly.
Java can only be really improved with another source-to-source compiler
although it is possible to compile Java code directly (but it still
requires garbage collectors):
https://www.graalvm.org/java/
Regards,
> Hi all
>
> I guess many of you have read articles about Microsoft, Google and NSA
> saying that it is better to stop to use C++ and use instead memory safe
> languages like Rust or Java.
>
> Is it possible to make C++ a memory safe language? For sure it is
> possible to make it safer, at least for new code that does not use
> legacy code.
>
> It needs a few extensions to the language, and to add libraries that
> privilege safety instead of performance, to be used when their
> performances are still acceptable.
I did brought up this subject a while ago... I already have a solution
that fixes all memory issues implicitly (crashes, leaks, cyclic
references, ...) and in a deterministic way but it is patented and
requires a proprietary source-to-source compiler to inject the code into
existing C++ code:
https://github.com/philippeb8/root_ptr
I am considering open sourcing it given the importance of the problem as
we can see with all the cybersecurity problems it involves.
We also need to fix low-level system allocators using singletons and
virtual tables so that it'll be easier to use custom memory pools.
Rust anyways has a long way to go to reach the level of C++ even if it
plagiarizes the architecture of the headers. Although it can replace C
very quickly.
Java can only be really improved with another source-to-source compiler
although it is possible to compile Java code directly (but it still
requires garbage collectors):
https://www.graalvm.org/java/
Regards,
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Received on 2023-02-14 19:55:57