Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nickpsecurity 3531 days ago
I didn't realize you developed SaferCPlusPlus or that it was an actual thing. I don't follow C++ anymore past what I see in a few forums. I mistakenly thought you were referring to attempts at standardization of safer stuff that they were calling Safer C++ or something in prior articles. So, you actually learned from projects like Ironclad then tried to do it simpler and better in your own project that you coded up. Great attitude and work!

"And iirc, it used assembly code and platform specific hacks to try to determine if an object was allocated on the stack or not."

My plan was to get some academics with an appreciation for making money to dig into it for non-sense like that, test its mechanisms, clean it up, and put in a concurrent, low-latency scheme for dynamic stuff. Then test it against common compilers and FOSS codebases before marketing it to companies to get some safety in various apps. :)

Of course, I have limited influence in current condition and you have no marketing budget for yours. Progress on Great Change stalls once again. Least you're keeping at your own project that might turn into something later.