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by pjmlp 1249 days ago
See here for the current status in VC++ as of last December. Plenty of work still to do.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/high-confidence-lifet...

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Sure. As was obvious from the beginning for anyone who's tried to do lifetime analysis on mostly-unannotated C++, this is going to become another "bug reporting" tool that doesn't accomplish anything close to what Rust does. Most likely, all it will do is catch a few of the more obvious bugs so they pass various tutorial examples people use to show why you need borrow checking, leading C++ programmers will believe the problem is solved when it isn't.