[Buttons840]

If the issue is that "C++ compiles stuff that may or may not work at all" then I don't see how those guidelines will help the situation. A C++ project may or may not follow those guidelines and then we're back where we started.

[swaroop]

My understanding is that the tools are the answer - it's a linter that must be run before landing/merging. See https://youtu.be/hEx5DNLWGgA for a demo of such tools.

[bjz_]

Tools are just band-aids over an unsafe type system, and they are all too easy to ignore or never use them in the first place.

[swaroop]

It depends on the community. See gofmt & gometalinter in the golang community.