Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, calls on the C++ community to defend the language, which faces criticism for memory safety issues. Many cybersecurity experts and agencies have turned away from C and C++ due to vulnerabilities linked to manual memory management. In response, the C/C++ community has proposed initiatives aimed at improving memory safety. However, Stroustrup emphasizes not only the need for technical advancements but also the lack of a compelling narrative to counter the rising preference for languages like Rust. He advocates for the Profiles framework as a crucial step forward.
It is a call to urgent action partly in response to unprecedented, serious attacks on C++. I think WG21 needs to do something significant and be seen to do it. Profiles is a framework that can do that.
This is also an opportunity because type safety and resource safety (including memory safety) have been key aims of C++ from the very start.
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