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by pjmlp 2199 days ago
Which is why they are the main drivers for C++ Core Guidelines, and have contributed the initial effort of a C++ lifetime analyses to clang, while making it available in all Visual Studio editions, including Community.

They are quite clear that a constraint version of C++ still gets to play in a secure world.

And while Azure Sphere still gets to be written in C (due to Linux kernel), it has a security layer (Pollonium) that takes care of bad code.

Finally, since they failed to move people into UWP programming model, sandboxing has been coming into Win32 as well, to the point that on Windows 10X, everything is sandboxed, including Win32 apps.