Phil Bouchard
Founder & CTO
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On a higher level other people have mentioned I am not sure you are doing your students favors by teaching them C++(except if you want to show them how low language primitives like arrays and malloc can be wrapped in nicer higher level language).Nobody can predict the future, but I would consider teaching them Rust.
Rust is stricter on memory allocations but again it doesn't
magically fix all problems. Rust is not compatible with other
languages and by the time it'll get ISO standardized to prevent
backward compatibility issues like Python, C++ will be a million
miles ahead.
As far as bad C style memory management is concerned, my company
offers a robust solution and I am planning to ISO standardize it
as well (I am part of the SCC / ISO committee now).
Regards,