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If you could reliably write memory safe code in C++, why do devs put memory safety issues intontheir code bases then?
Even highly paid (and probably skilled) devs in the IT industry manage to mess that up pretty regularly. Even if it was: devs using memory safe languages make much fewer mistakes wrt. managing memory... so that tooling does seem to help them at least more than the C++ tooling helps the C++ devs.
That's a question you can ask to the guys promoting the adoption of languages marketed based on memory safety arguments. I mean, even Rust has a fair share of CVEs whose root cause is unsafe memory management.
No it doesn't, that's bullshit.
Well, there is cve-rs, just sayin'
The fact that rustc has bugs (which is what cve-rs exploit) doesn't invalidate that rust the language is memory safe.