Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines

alphabetsoup writes: At CppCon this year, Bjarne Stroustrup announced the C++ Core Guidelines. The guidelines are designed to help programmers write safe-by-default C++ with no run-time overhead. Compilers will statically check the code to ensure no violations. A library is available now, with a static checking tool to follow in October.

Here is the video of the talk, and here are the slides.The guidelines themselves are here.

Comments

Re:Instrumenting c++ to behave like Rust

[Tailhook]

I found Rust

I've found it best not to talk about Rust around here. The language has already accumulated a legion of haters at Slashdot. Rational discussion about Rust sans the office punklets happens at Hacker News.

It was anticipated that Rust would motivate some progress in C++ memory safety. Some have argued that if that is all that Rust accomplishes it is worthwhile. Too bad an entire language has to be invented to get some folks off the dime.

The uptake of Rust is so large though I don't think it's going to go away just because C++ adopts some degree of compile time memory safety. The language is great on it's own merits, there is none of that half century of baggage to slog through and the entire stack and all native Rust third part modules provide the same memory safety guarantees, barring 'unsafe.'

These things, combined with the never ending stream of opportunities the segfaults and overflows that C/C++ cannot avoid providing will ensure a chunk of mind-share, haters be damned.

Re:Ada had this in 1995

[david.emery]

That "piece of shit" is in most modern commercial aircraft these days, as well as the ground ATC systems. Guess maybe you shouldn't fly, then, if that's your opinion, Mr Coward.

There are legitimate criticisms that can be levied against any programming language, as well as against the Ada program. But this comment addresses none of them.