Comment by uecker
10 hours ago
I don't put too much wait on the self-reporting by Microsoft or Google. I agree though that the strategy to write safe bits and abstractions is good. What I know not to be true is the idea that similar strategies would not work also in C.
> What I know not to be true is the idea that similar strategies would not work also in C.
Is your argument that developers at MS and Google haven’t been trying to employ these strategies for existing C codebases? It’s a bold position to take and one I’d say devoid of evidence; all the evidence suggests it’s really hard to reason about ownership in complex systems and abstractions only help you do so error free up to a very limited point.