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by mcqueenjordan 2417 days ago
I’m glad to hear that your code is unbreakable and without any bugs, but pcwalton’s claim is still absolutely correct.

> This is empirically not true. Tons of memory safety issues are found (and exploited) all the time in modern idiomatic C++ codebases.

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"I’m glad to hear that your code is unbreakable and without any bugs, but pcwalton’s claim is still absolutely correct"

I smell sarcasm here. I do not claim my code to be unbreakable. I do believe it is REASONABLY safe by design. pcwalton's claim is generic claim about generic code that may have no relevance to particular situations. Mine for example