Bjarne Stroustrup says standards committee needs to show it can respond to memory safety push

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.

  • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I know very little about C++, can you help me understand at a very basic level what variadic templates are? Is it about a template taking a varying number of generic types? If it is, then you can get something very similar in Rust by implementing a trait for tuples of various lengths.