[jandrewrogers]

I can't speak for all modern C++ code bases but this assertion is manifestly false in every modern C++ code base I have come in contact with for a long time now. There have been some gross exploits in publicly audited "safe" Rust code in recent months -- does this mean no one should use Rust? Are you going to make a hobby of denouncing Rust in public forums as a consequence?

I don't understand the desperate need to paint all modern C++ code bases as dangerously unsafe. It is demonstrably not true and doesn't reflect well on the motivations of those that would blindly assert it. Modern C++ has many issues and, like all programming languages, is the scene of many bugs. Just not memory safety issues. Furiously asserting that memory safety is an issue does not manufacture fact.

[pcwalton]

> I don't understand the desperate need to paint all modern C++ code bases as dangerously unsafe.

Because the idea that security vulnerabilities can be fixed by just "modernizing" C++ codebases is actively harming security, by discouraging investment in memory-safe languages.

> It is demonstrably not true and doesn't reflect well on the motivations of those that would blindly assert it.

It is demonstrably true, as http://twitter.com/lazyfishbarrel shows. Perhaps consider that those of us who work on browsers, which are some of the largest most-attacked pieces of software in the world, would know what we are talking about.